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Hi, I am Earle Hammond, and I love to muskie fish....have
for quite a few years. My wife and I have been fishing Pomme de Terre
for 40 years. We first started coming down to the lake to fish in 1967 and we
stayed at Martins Lakeside Resort for many years. It finally changed
owners and names, it is currently Anglers Resort. It still holds a
spot in our minds. The original owner use to send us home with bags of
fresh vegetables which we accepted gratefully. We have been really
fishing for muskies almost from the time they were stocked in the lake in 1966.
I have been fishing since I can remember from the Fox River in northern
Illinois to the James River in SW Missouri when I was growing up.
 I
still remember the James River, a place called Baker's Hole located near
Galena, it was $2.00 a carload for a weekend of real camping. We use
to seine hellgrammites (larvae of the Dobson Fly) out of the river and use them for bait. My
mother would not touch them but picked them out of the can with needle nose
pliers,
hellgrammites do have some nasty pinchers on them....
Growing up in the area, Strafford, actually, I can
remember my mother and father visiting some friends in Hermitage and
crossing the dam before water started filling it. There were a lot of
bulldozers piling up trees and a lot of fires were burning those away.
After graduating from high school and finding out I was way too smart to go to
college I entered the Navy. Upon getting out of the Navy I worked
around Springfield for a few years and then went to Kansas City, Mo. where I
took a $10 bet from a friend and tried to get on the KCMO Police Department,
I won the bet, best bet I ever made, and found something that I really enjoyed. I
spent 30 years on the KCMO Police Dept and 20 of those years were spent in
the Canine Unit. A couple of years after joining the Department I met
and married my wife and fishing partner, Mary. We raised three great kids, Theresa, Earle
#3, and Tommy. They all spent a lot of time at Pomme with us in our
camper and at Anglers. My wife always told the kids not to get
married, have kids or anything else during the muskie tournament because
their dad would not be there. I did not miss a tournament for 30
years, I did miss one when I took a trip to Canada in October to fish for
50"+ muskies. What a trip, living on a 68' houseboat for ten
days, took one the following year also but this time the trip was a week
after the muskie tournament.
I did finally go to night school while on the
PD and did get my degree. I have also had the honor to meet every
President of the USA from L.B. Johnson to Ronald Ragan. I even had a
chance encounter with Pres. Jimmy Carter one night while working an off-duty
job at the Muehlebach Hotel in downtown KC, we talked for about 10 minutes,
he was (still is) a very nice man.
After retiring from the Police Department I worked at the
Federal Reserve Bank in KCMO and all this time I never stopped fishing for
muskie and other species. While at the Fed we bought a 5th wheel
trailer after the kids all vacated the house and parked it at the Harbor,
at Pomme de Terre, for a couple of summers. We sold it when we bought
a house on the lake and moved down here permanently. Mary and I both
enjoy living down here and looking out from our deck and watching the fish
hit the surface of the lake down below us.
Not really much of biography but I wanted to catch up on
my typing.
I do usually fish almost everyday,,,,,,why would we have moved
down here otherwise.
I am also 1 of 12 Regional Directors for
Muskies, Inc.
an Nationwide Muskie Organization..
I am also on the Board of Directors (Treasurer) for the
Pomme de Terre Chamber of
Commerce.
I also do the website,
Missourimuskies.org
and I am the editor of the newsletter MoMuskies News.
I am also PawPaw to Matthew, Colton, Meghan, Mason and
Graden.
Colton Hammond is the first baby born in the Liberty, Mo. Hospital this
CENTURY!!!!!
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