Mike Knott still remembers feeling the absence left by his best friend and fishing companion the first time he boarded a boat without him.
“The first week, I honestly didn’t know if I was ever going to be able to fish again. I was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to be able to do it again. It’s just going to make me think of him all the time and I don’t know if I’m ever going to be able to enjoy it,’” Knott said.
Knott’s best friend, Brent Nelson, died in a car crash in 2016 when he was 25 years old. The pair met at Cardinal Newman High School and bonded over fishing along with their friend Karl Kobler…