Services Thursday for Bob "Hawkeye" Jacobs. (Great article by MV Times, Nelson Sigelman, May 10, 2016). Definitely worth a read for a true fishing icon.
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5/12/2016 2:16 PM
Robert Scott “Hawkeye” Jacobs, who spurned the trappings of corporate success and followed his love of fishing to the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard, where he found friends and a way of life that suited his personality — gregarious when it came to poker, and solitary when he thought the stripers might be biting during the Derby — died Sunday at his home in Oak Bluffs with friends and his brother by his side, following a long illness. He was 68.
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