About Your Captain

Captain Dan has been fishing the big Lake for 20 years, with 10 years as a Coast Guard and State of Michigan Licensed Charter Boat Captain. It isn’t easy to be a licensed Charter Boat Captain. You have to know what you’re doing and prove it to get and keep your license.

Captain Dan is a typical Yooper: went away to serve his country  right after high school,  spending  a hitch in  the Navy, and went to work as soon as he got out. It would be pretty accurate to say that he’s pushing 60, from what side, just depends on which part of this summer you see him. He’s been in love with the same woman for over 40 years, and is very thankful that he found a wife that would put up with him for that long.

 Dan has been fishing all his life,  with trout fishing his main interest.  In his youth, he spent many late nights picking “dew” worms for fishing native brook trout at the crack of dawn the next day, in the small streams and rivers of the North Woods of  Michigan and Wisconsin. In later years he spent Springs fishing for Steelhead, and Fall fishing for Salmon and Trout. A 15-foot runabout led to a 25-footer, then another 25-footer, eventually leading to the present day NOMAD, a 38-foot Chris Craft Commander.

A strong believer that fishing should be fun, he also has a strong respect and love for the Lake and all its creatures, in and out of the water. “At One With the Lake” describes your captain, and you will be too, when you’re on the NOMAD.

An advocate of  serving his community, Dan has been active in various sportsmen’s clubs and organizations as a working member and officer over the years, and will continue to do so.

“ God bless America,  the land that we Love”.