Lure Legend: Peter Dunn-Rankin

Pete was born on November 16, 1929, and spent his childhood with his brothers, Derek and Jonathan, and friend Larry Fuller exploring fishing grounds in Miami, Sarasota and Winter Park, Florida. He became a naval officer and served at the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit in Port Townsend, Washington, where he invented an “efficient installation of deep-water magnetic indicator loops to detect enemy ships and submarines.”

According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser obituary, in 1964 Dr. Dunn-Rankin moved to O‘ahu with wife, Pat, and their three children for a professorship at the University of Hawai‘i where he worked for 40 years.

In Hawai‘i, Pete’s passion for fishing resurfaced. He took numerous fishing adventures (highlighted in HFN) to the Hawaiian and Micronesian islands. His fishing trip buddy was friend Jeff Kohn.

Inspired by these experiences, Pete invented the PILI and SuperLolo surface popping