It began as "Hutson's Bait" with Dickie's father selling fishing worms and minnows out of some houses, then a backyard shed. In 1986, Dickie Hutson built the shop as it stands to honor his mother.

Jessica Hill Perry was the face of Perry’s Bait & Tackle in Murrells Inlet. After she was killed by her ex-husband, she left the business to her three children.

If that plaque is hung in the shop on Father’s Day, there is a chance that it will be seen by Johnnie Ankom, a longtime customer of Big Moe’s Bait & Tackle shop near the Belle Isle Bridge, who ...