
Here’s some recent videos of our adventures, check
them out!
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We
coordinated a big group of 115 anglers for Outdoor Connection with
boats from our harbor!
A
group’s posting on U-Tube of friends from all over The US
picking Sheboygan to fish salmon with us.
The history of “Wolf Pack Adventures.”
Now that you’re a bit familiar with the opportunities “The
Pack” can provide, you may have questions regarding who we
are and what our experience has been.
We are “The Wolf Pack,” a father and sons adventure
service. We haven’t always been “The Wolf Pack.”
Actually, we’re Roy, Jerrad and Pat Kalmerton, who, along
with wife/mom Cindy (the alpha wolf of this pack) spent the majority
of family time recreating in the outdoors. Starting an outdoor adventure
business was certainly not a considered plan, but in 2003 changes
in life circumstances met with intervening fate and we thus became
known as the Kalmertons and “The Wolf Pack.”
Roy began his career in 1967 with the State of Wisconsin working
in the division of game management. Several years later he transferred
into the field of conservation law enforcement and eventually transferred
back to Sheboygan County. In addition to enforcing hunting, fishing
and boating laws, a majority of his time was spent instructing youth
in outdoor safety programs and teaching adults and youth alike how
to more fully appreciate and enjoy the outdoors. With authority
over enforcement of the Sheboygan County natural resources, it was
inevitable he became very familiar with each body of water.
Through the years and as our boys grew, each fishing trip became
more adventurous, each offering a new and more challenging method
of catching fish. They fished throughout the Midwest and Canada
at every opportunity becoming very familiar with each species in
any given lake. But their true love was fishing Lake Michigan. Living
near the lake was indeed fortunate and found us fishing from the
“Sweetwater” our first Lake Michigan boat, many, many
hours in the summer.
Spending the majority of their summers on the lake or at the docks,
it wasn’t unexpected that both Jerrad and Pat became first
mates on a local charter boat by the age of 13. Jerrad worked full
time each summer on the lake – and when he was through working,
he went fishing! Even after high school he worked summers on the
boats. He decided to get his captain’s license and worked
seven more years as a captain on the area’s largest boats
and top-ranked charter fleet. He had one dream: to have an outdoor
job that doesn’t end at the end of summer.
Pat followed in the footsteps of his older brother, working full
time each summer on the lake. He would hold various part-time jobs
through high school but they would never compete with his true love,
fishing in the summer. After high school he was employed as a G.P.S.
Technician traveling throughout the U.S. mapping land contours through
use of Global Positioning Systems. But still, nothing is quite like
fishin' – and mom had to convince him every summer that fishing
was a hobby; don’t quit your job. Pat’s dream: to fish.
Doesn’t matter where, when or how. Just fish. Just water,
boats, fish and meeting new people every day.
This is where fate intervenes. In the spring Roy decided to retire
from the DNR, which would enable him to spend more time doing the
things he enjoyed. At about that same time the owners of the charter
service the boys mated and captained for decided to sell their business
and relocate. We would be sorry to see them leave. Within a month
of that the company Pat worked for downsized and he found himself
unemployed. And, to make a long story short, “The Wolf Pack”
came to be and, as they say, the rest is history. |