Dear Fish Diary: Not too long ago, I wrote about how to make up excuses to go fishing. I was trying to help you by giving you reasons to get out and enjoy the lakes and streams with your rod and reel. I was coming to your aid and filling your head full of twisted...
Dear Fish Diary: I have to be honest; some guys really don’t want their girlfriends or spouses to take up fishing. I’m serious. I know it sounds a bit out there, but it’s true. Their excuses run the gauntlet of typical relationship rhetoric. Oh, this is a man’s sport,...
Dear Fish Diary: Ron Koetje isn’t really a bragger. He’s not one to bend your ear for hours telling you hero stories of the monsters he’s caught. He won’t bore you with war stories about the ones that got away. Nope, Ron is much more subtle. By subtle, I’m saying Ron...
Being an outdoorsman, social distancing has never been an issue for me. I want to be as far away from people as I can get and the more remote my location the better. I’m probably one of the few that was slightly jealous of Tom Hanks in the movie Castaway. During the...
Dear Fish Diary; Cat Splat Fever Nobody likes getting skunked. A lot of time and effort is put into each fishing trip in anticipation of making that special creel limit haul. Did you ever think, as you’re motoring back to the boat launch with your tail between...