Fishing and fundraising — the simple gift of a silent auction item

Mick Niles’s wife Karen was a bit perturbed last Saturday when he wore his best golf shirt to take me fishing on the Missouri River near Chamberlain.

“I don’t fish with my shirt,” he told her, before beginning his last day as a fishing guide.

Mick, a spry nearly 83-year-old, dislikes being called a guide.

“I just take people fishing,” he said.

It is something he has done for many years to help his favorite organization — the South Dakota Hall of Fame.

Via Watertown Public Opinion