Fishing net finds its way home

Malta’s Don Voegel got a call from his wife, Cheryl, about a month ago and she was looking to borrow a fishing net for someone she didn’t really know.

Cheryl, the store manager at Malta’s Albertsons, told her husband a couple from Hamilton, Mont., was in the store as they made a stop on their way to Fourchette Bay in Fort Peck for some early summer fishing.

“They forgot their net and there were none available in town,” Don said. “So, I brought the net down to the store and found out this couple wasn’t going to be coming back through Malta so I wasn’t sure how we would get the net back.”

Quick-thinking Cheryl said “just have them leave it there, at Fourchette, and leave a note on it about how to get it back to us.”

Three weeks later, Don still didn’t have his net back (and this is a 30-inch net, standing at least 5-feet..)

“The day after I said that,” Don recalls, “I was standing at the store and in comes Brenda Koss and she has the net with the note on it.”

Don said he initially thought the net would make it’s way home, but after week three he “wasn’t really holding” his breath.

“My wife knew it would make it back, and it did,” Don said.