A white deer is complicating my fishing life

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...

Sometimes, it takes a practical joke to get her hooked

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,...

This amazing catch is not a ‘hum-drum’ story

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...

How do you tell an Outdoors Person to Stay Inside?

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...