With every nice sized shark Rene de Dios caught he took the oppurtunity to get his story and picture in the newspaper.Rene was going to Miami Dade college to get his Captain's licsense and somehow managed to have his story put in the school newspaper.
Rene with one of his first tigers caught at the south beach pier
Rene with a 11 foot hammerhead shark on the south beach pier
I remenber when it was a shark in the news it was always rene n them always at the south beach pier.I fished with dundy an we were trying to fish to beat#1 rene but we never could match him he was just to in to it.
A few more 1976 newspaper artcles I dug up.
SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB -President SFSC-Founding Member est 1983 SFSC-Website Administrator BIG HAMMER SHARK TOURNAMENT -Founder Rene Memorial Sharkathon -Founder NMFS Shark Tagger