HINCKLEY – For Duane Landmeier, it’s an ironic twist of fate.

When the Hinckley man was growing up in Sandwich, his father and uncles would take him fishing, as would his sister, Denise Spooner, and his brother-in-law, Tim Alfredson – usually for muskie, a large kind of pike.

“Muskies used to scare me when I was a kid,” Landmeier said, laughing as he admitted he’d often pull his lure out of the water to avoid them. “You can’t see them until right before they come up to the boat. They look mean, like an alligator.”