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I was shaken when I read the following email that I recently received. It hit me so hard that I read it over and over again.

“Hi Steve, Your column, along with Jim O’Donnell’s, is my favorite in the Daily Herald. But I must tell you how upset I was reading your Lake Superior adventure the past 2 weeks.

“Where did we put the life jackets?

“Are you kidding me? Lake Superior and you’re not sure where the life jackets are? You admit to be in an undersized boat. You continue fishing even when you admit you should be heading in?

“You sound like a drunk college kid with no idea how to act on a great lake!

“But what upset me the most was how cavalier you described your actions instead of explaining to your reade

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