From DNR Webpage
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| Bud Ramer |
Besides my father I know of another guy who built up a
successful business from almost nothing, his name was Henry Ramer but everyone
knew him as Bud. I don’t know the details of his life I had heard he had been
in trouble as a youth. He had a
successful retail and commercial fishing operation in Winona Minnesota for a
lot of years. I had met Bud from seeing him at Shorty’s restaurant, on occasion
I would help him out with a problem on his computer at the store. He would
always try to pay me but I would always refuse, it was more fun to get to go
out on his fishing boat instead.
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| Fish Delivery Truck |
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| Hoop Nets |
What impressed me besides his extension knowledge of the
Mississippi River and commercial fishing was his business savvy. He once told
me that he would pay the extra money to get some new technology before other
people had it because it gave him a jump on the competition. He had purchased some
kind of depth finder when it was really expensive but felt even afterwards it
was worth it. I also remember he
purchased a special radio control submarine that would pull a line under the
ice so nets could be strung under the ice.
Before that long boards were pushed between a series of holes cut in the
ice which took a lot longer.
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| Air Boat |
Once a week Bud would drive a truck full of fish to markets
in the Twin Cities area, some of the fish were live because he had found a
market for live fish. He knew a lot of
people and with his connections he supplied the catfish that was used in the
Grumpier Old Men movie, there were pictures at his store of him with the stars
of the movie. If something was not making him money, he would cut his losses and
discontinue it such as the fish store he had in Rochester Minnesota.
Bill Kuhl
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