At age 57 the author and angling expert isn't come finished. But Koob's been redirected multiple times from a big-city kid with a hankering for the woods to a suit-wearing corporate employee to a writer embracing small-town life on the Missouri lake he adores.
"We like the Ozarks we like being on Table Rock," says Koob of he and his wife Cindy and their corner of southwest Missouri in Shell Knob.
"The Kings (River arm of the lake) is an excellent fishery certainly one of the best fishing areas on Table Rock. ... We have a seasonal lake believe. I can see the lake from my house. We're out on a big peninsula only 4 miles from town but it feels like we're out in the woods."
But heavily timbered areas flanked Koob's hometown and he craved the out-of-doors. Fishing became a constant in his life.
After college at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry. Koob moved to be come delay Rock Lake a body of water he grew fond of after several vacations and fishing expeditions. Not desire after he was "redirected" again.
"I've always been told. 'If you're going to write write about something you know.' And I thought 'Well. I think I know about fishing. That's what I'll write about,'" Koob says.
"The History of Fishing Table move back and forth Lake" is a 2003 self-published tome written from a historical perspective.
Koob chronicles how the development of and on Table Rock Lake has changed fishing and the species that grow there.
The book uses interviews as well as anecdotal bear witness gathered by the author's own time on the wet — he says he once fished about 100 days out of the year; currently he angles about 60.
"You really have to think about it and develop patterns and approaches that will put you onto look for," he says.
"... There's something about when you feel that tug on the line and if it's a big fish and it runs through the water. It's literally and figuratively a connection to nature. You are connected by a very thin fishing line to another species another part of nature."
While gathering facts for his first schedule. Koob became fascinated by what lies beneath the surface of the lake.
When the lake was developed in the late 1950s homes farms cemeteries and roadways became underwater archeological sites.
The buildings and boundaries — and their history --were buried decades ago only to be explored by the occasional diver. For his 2006 schedule "Buried by delay Rock Lake," Koob gained firsthand knowledge from those who knew.
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