re: "Naturally Nawlins" Frank Davis has passed away...

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I'm surprised all the love for him I'm hearing these last couple days. I grew up in Slidell and always just heard how big of an a-hole the guy was even though he was good on TV. I don't know one way or another but just find it interesting now.

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I have heard that over the years. But I had dealings with him on a personal level several times including back in 80s when he did a segment with a friend of mine that was a chef...

I also remember well when he was MC for a fishing event I was in(i placed second and the person in first cheated - many knew it... ) Frank handled it with class...

the problem most people have with well known people is that you think they owe you your 15 minutes - they don't... sometimes they give it..

but sometimes they give you your 15 minutes... even if they worked all night the night before or were on the road for 10 hours....

the main people i have seen say he was an a-hole.. were people that tried to tell him how, where and who to fish with, and people that tried to tell him how to make his recipes better....

I saw him do his show back in the 80s of the guys that were walking 50 feet on one piece of angle iron 25 feet above the water to fish under seabrook and most of em couldn't swim.... and then he spent a LOT of his own time getting a catwalk and railing for those guys that fished there....

I also saw him after a fishing event go find some obviously underpriviledged kids and give them fishing tackle....

with as many personalities and some with much more political clout wanting his slot...

he carried himself pretty well in my book.... and I don't say that about a lot of people...