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or rexas.ALTIIOrOH DAVE was born inNew York, he's mostly a South* ! tuner. When Dave was hut two 1 years of ago his parents moved to 1 Florida There his father served 1 as a fishing guide for 12 years. M During the last six of those yuan 1 he was associated with the Shakes-j 1 pea re Co. and gave exhibition!' casting and tackle demonstrations, i'With this environment it was hut natural that Dave learned to fish : early in life. Fact of the matter I1 is, Dave guided many a fisher-j' man out of the Florida Everglades when he was only 11 years of age.;LATER, DAVE helped his father Capt. O. L. Hawk, open and operate lure factories in California, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas. providing bait for those specific arias. These factories were sold to national manufacturers, who incorporated Hawk lures into their own lines.One November day in 1 956. a representative of a large Texas i lure manufacturing company stopped in for a visit at the Hawk Lure factory in Harrison. Ark In short order he purchased the firm’s entire line —lock, stock and barrel. I That put Dave out of a job. Hut it also brought him to Texas as manager of th* Corpus Christi firm, the Padre Island Lure Co.1 Six months later he was elected president.DAV REMAINED there until j September of 1958. In November he started his own firm in Austin Today, when he isn't fishing, he’s making Extractor and other brands of Dave Hawk lures.That, in brief, is the background f Dave Hawk, champion fisher-l man and author of “80 Years Hass.”onI say champ fisherman because! Dave’s the gent who. in 1958, wonthe State Hass Tournament, won the Behren s Drug Tackle Tourney j for tackle representatives, shared the overall championship of the j Port Aransas Salt Water Tourna-I ment. set a tentative world record for ling on light tackle at the Port Isabel Tournament, and was run-j ner-up in the National ProfessionalFishermen's Tournament in Arkansas.THIS ALL in one year’s time, mind you.Only a fisherman with D a v e Hawk’s background anti proven a-bilitv could get away with some of tht' comments he makes in his book without a challenge—for he is very frank and doesn't hesitate to express an opinion.Some of the suggestions Dave makes are startling ones.For instance, his first recommendation is to discard all swivels
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Fort Stockton Pioneer
Fort Stockton, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 26, 1959
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