Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Pond Boss Happy birthday George

Miss ya buddy.

He seems to have had birthdays yesterday and today!!!

So good he needed two days to get 'er done!!!

Sunil, he's probably in Heaven, checking to see if you were paying attention.

To paraphrase Charlie Daniels:

"And Glazener, my buddy, above all the rest
I miss you the most and I liked you the best
And now that you're gone, I thank God I was blessed
Just to know you."

Sometimes there are no words that tell the story !!!!!!!

Ditto Al!! I have some flies from George that will never see the pond.

I have some flies from George too. I need to learn to fly fish so that they CAN see a pond!

George's flies here

https://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=92618#Post92618

I seem to recall that we got George to sign his own hat.....before he knew it was for him.

Yes - here it is :

Eric, George was very proud of that hat.

George gave me all his old slides, and I had them put on CDs for him. I found this pic buried amongst the thousands of pics he had accumulated over the years. This is a Florida Keys trip with Flip Pallot. He and Lefty Kreh are the GOATS of fly fishing.

I remember Lefty Kreh now - he was one of George's friends.

I didn't get to know George well, but we had a few lengthy conversations and I'll always appreciate the time he took to share his wisdom.

Didn't George have a hand in designing the TFO mini-mag fly rod??

I know he did design work and Beta testing for TFO.

Yes. The 8/10 Mini Mag George tested was intended to go to Lefty, but he'd gotten snowed in, and TFO couldn't get the rod to him. I don't intend this to be an infomercial for TFO, but they're really good about getting new fly rods in the hands of guides and instructors for testing. I have a 5# TFO experimental fly rod that became the Esox. Not sure why they would give me one to test, but I'm not complaining.

TFO - through George gave Pond Boss a bunch of gear to sell/auction/give away to raise $ for scholarships/research.

I wasn't on this forum when he was around. Sounds like he was one hellva individual. Is this the same fella who is world famous for Striper Bass? None the less I hope your resting in peace with a pole in your hand.

Rusto, yes, George was one of an early group of people to put hybrid stripers in ponds.

And due to his scientific nature, he documented and communicated his experiences regarding the same to the Forum.

He may have been the one to coin the phrase 'ladder stocking.'

Here's some very old Lake Texoma pics. George understood seasonal baitfish migration, and caught stripers in epic numbers. To me, Mrs. G was the best fisherman of the 2, and I always reminded George of that.

Oh my those are nice. I got some stripers from snrub this year. Those suckers have alot of fight in them at the earlier stages in life. I cant wait 2 get hold of a few pounder.

Great pictures Al!

God Bless George!

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Actually we were all blessed to know George !

Interesting when I was working with George to design some Pond Boss flies we were discussing colors. He said Mrs. G did all the color selection as he was effectively color blind.