Let's kind of go back to the
beginning and tell me a little bit
about how you two met.
So this was a number of years ago
in Door County, right?
Well, actually it was in Green Bay
at West High School.
We were both teaching there,
and a lot of our students would
say things like, you know,
to him.
Yeah, they were like, Mr. Meyer,
you've got to go down and check out
Ms. K, because you guys come
back on Mondays and you're telling
the same kind of stories, like
fishing and hunting.
I'm like, really?
I'm, like, what does she teach?
And they're like, Family Consumer
Ed. And I'm oh, I'll
go check it out.
So I do a little drive-by and
huh, well, I've got investigate
this.
One of our first dates was
meeting and going fishing at
midnight on opening day.
Mm-hmm.
And then of course their big
thing was to try and catch us
dating, you know, so we had back
before No phones and you know
they've got this one and one one guy
had this big huge
Video recorder and he'd chasing us
around what we came out of this bar
downtown and there
they are in a car They pulled up and
they're like with a big leg.
We got you guys and I'm just like,
oh man.
Yeah
That's how we met, and the
first time he came over,
I was showing him some pictures in a
photo album, and I had a picture
of my grandpa who was kneeling
down by some rabbits and
pheasants, and you know, I learned
to hunt with my grandpa.
And he looked at it and he went...
And beagles.
And bagels, yeah, the dogs.
Yeah, and beagles.
My grandpa was a beagle guy and
we hunted rabbits.
I could have been looking at my
grandpa there.
In fact, he said that to me at the
time.
And then, and then the,
then, then that couple of months
later, we were,
uh, we were out, went out to
her grandparents' cottage and,
um, she had to meet somebody at the
cottage. I don't remember what it
was, but I had brought my little
boat and she's like, just go out
there and go down the shoreline
where they're building that new
house. She said off that point and
go out this far and cast
a number 11 silver and black
Rapala toward shore and,
and just, you know, long cast
toward shore and just right off that
points.
Needless to say, he didn't ever have
girls telling him where to go
fishing or what to
Well, I grew up in Eau Claire and
fishing for smallmouth, and that's
what I did all summer.
I fished smallmouth. I love fishing
smallmouth and back then, you know,
everybody kept everything all the
way. So to keep, catch smallmouth
over 15 inches was like a
big deal. You know, we just didn't,
I went out there in my very first
cast and like, okay, I'll do what
I'm told. So I went up there and I
made a cast and bait hit the water a
couple of cranks.
This giant smallmouth pounded, I
hooked, came out of the water as an
18 incher and I'm just like.
Are you kidding me?
I caught seven in a row on
seven casts.
I'm like, I am marrying this girl.
I went back and I was just like,
this is unbelievable.
I was like, this is unbelieveable.
I just was, this, I was shocked.
Well, you certainly couldn't have
been restricted in the number of men
that wanted to fish.
You had to be the high prize here.
It made him the
one.
Well, um...
Come on, you're thinking
awfully hard.
No, no.
It was just a
thing. I always say the way
he talked about stuff and
the enthusiasm he has for
everything.
He taught sales and marketing.
Let's just say he could sell
anything to anyone because he sold
himself to me.
When she died, Pam and consumer ed,
teaching people to watch out for
those sales and marketing people,
so, you know.
But I bought in and we
came up here on adventures
that I had never been on, but always
wished I had gone on and we'd come
up and drive logging roads
and go fish on little lakes and
camp out in a tent on an island on a
lake and I just wasn't having, I
just thought
Yeah, it was good times.
So then how did that
lead to where we are today?
What was the progress that led from
teaching in Green Bay to being
up here?
Well, this was always kind
of when you grow up in Eau Claire if
you had north a couple hours you're
here and coming from Door County and
so, you know Eastern Green Bay
Eastern, Wisconsin It seems
like people don't make that
trip pretty much highway 51 is
kind of you know, or 13 Maybe
but people don't really head west
that much so to go from there all
the way up here is a long drive But
because this was kind of the area
that I knew and and and I knew she
loved it We did a lot of
trips up here, you know, we didn't
have a cabin.
We camped and once
in a while we splurged and rented a
cabin and we always deer
hunted up here even though we're in
the middle of deer crazy
numbers of deer back there.
We'd come up here and we loved
it. I mean it was, you'd go the
whole season and not see another
hunter a lot of times and
you know there were times when the
deer population was really strong.
It's still pretty good but
we always said.
This would be a place where we'd
want to have a cabin.
And then the graduation to the
fishing and the way we fish, because
we like fishing wilderness rivers
and small lakes and out of a canoe
or a cargo canoe
that we use, that kind of
happened because I asked him to go
up to canoe country with me up into
the Coetico where I love to go.
And the first thing he said to me
is, well, can you fish up
there? And I'm like, well, yeah.
He was, you're not just paddling,
you're fishing too? I'm, like, yeah!
So we went up on our first trip up
there and it was kind of magical.
We both just had a great time
and caught lots of fish and
that was kind of then we when we
came back here then we started
taking what we learned about fishing
out of a canoe there and applying
it here even though we had a big
boat we'd go out on big water it
was just something about being on
the small lakes and rivers and just
quiet and peaceful and
and still catching big fish just a
lot of fun.
And then we had an opportunity to
buy just a crappy old cabin
on a lake.
Hadn't been lived in a lot of years
and, and, and we bought
it and that was kind of when we knew
that at some point we're going to,
we're going to take that down.
We're going live there after we
retire.
And, um, and that kind of, when we
started our guide business, once we
had that cabin, we kind of had a
home base.
Um, we had some people over
at the lodge at Boulder lodge, the
new owners there.
The guides that they had there
didn't really have the
right focus for what the lodge
wanted. The lodge wanted that whole
teaching kind of focus, family,
kids, which is what we were all
about.
And so we, they asked us if we would
guide, you know, for their client,
you know, their customers and they'd
have, you, know, we kind of partner
and and between Boulder
Lodge and Ghost Lake Lodge, those
two, we work with them
pretty closely and you know people
come up for a week's vacation.
And they stay on the lake and they
fish the lake, but they don't often
venture, you know, they don't have
the gear, you don't have multiple
vehicles, even when you do a river,
you need to usually pick up and, you
gotta, so we kind of fall in
that niche and we love taking kids.
I mean, families. Well, and our
kids. Families are everything.
Our kids grew up and left, you know,
the darn it all, so we didn't have
them to drag around the wilderness
fishing anymore, so.