One of the biggest breaks we had...I wanted to advertise in some of the national fishing magazines. Of course, I didn't have a lot of money. I figured maybe I could buy some classified ads. So Fishing Facts magazine, which is strictly freshwater fishing, national distribution on the news stands, here and in foreign countries, too, I sent them some samples of our products that I wanted to advertise. Well, they said that they wouldn't advertise anything they wouldn't endorse themselves, or wouldn't use themselves. So, I got a call back one night about a week later, and it was the editor and publisher [George Pazik], and he said he got the lures. And he said, "Great," he really liked them; in fact he'd done went out and used them and liked them and had good results. He said, "I want to make you a deal." He said, "I want you to write an article for us, and I'll just trade you a page of advertisement or whatever it takes to pay you." I said, "Well, the problem is I'm no writer." He said, "That don't make no difference. That's what we want, fisherman as writers. So you just tell it in your own words." So, I did. I wrote, I didn't know when to stop. I wrote one that was super long, and I just used my own words, like I'm talking to you, and fortunately they liked it. They made two articles out of it, and then they offered me a full time position as a field editor. So I wrote for them for years, and all they wanted me to write about was our type of fishing, light tackle. So we got a lot of national and international exposure from that.
Charlie Brewer, Sr.
Local TV interview, circa 1995