Hawaii County HI Archives News.....FISH LURES ARE HOBBY OF RETIRED DEPUTY SHERIFF May 28, 1948
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TRIBUNE HERALD May 28, 1948
  William J. Rickard, retired Hamakua deputy sheriff, has developed a hobby 
that occupies considerable of his time and is beginning to pay dividends.
  “Uncle Bill”, as his friends call him, is now a one-man manufacturer. Having 
nothing to do for the past 13 years, he began making fish lures of various 
types. He has succeeded in perfecting several types that appeal to fisherman, 
with the result that he has had to begin manufacturing them commercially. They 
are quite inexpensive, as he has no overhead expenses, outside of the cost of 
materials and his own time.
  Feathered hooks are his specialty and he has a type of lure to attract the 
various kinds of fish.
  “I wanted something to occupy my spare time, of which I have plenty,” he 
told The Tribune-Herald, “and I decided that this was it.”
  In the back room in the old Rickard hotel at Honokaa he has his workshop.
  He also has a wonderful collection of weapons which he acquired from lawless 
men whom he captured during his 25 ˝ years as deputy sheriff, and a rare 
collection of boar skulls, taken from wild pigs that he has shot from time to 
time in his district. Two of these heads he sent to the California School of 
Dentistry at San Francisco, to Dr. Saxon B. Scott, dean of the school, through 
Lt. Cmdr. U. S. Coles, USN, who is a friend of both. These skulls are used in 
dental practice by the students.
  “Uncle Bill” otherwise is taking life easy. He lives in the old hotel 
building at Honokaa which was abandoned some time ago as a hostelry. When he 
is not working on his lures he does a great deal of reading but retires early.
  Rickard has been around quite a lot during his lifetime. He went to England 
in 1887, where he attended school, at Tavistock, Devonshire for five years. 
While there he played on the school soccer team, of which he has a photo. He 
says he is now the only member of that team still living.
  In 1907 he made a trip to Alaska. He retired as deputy sheriff of Hamakua in 
June, 1935.


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