Family recollections alongside distinct newspaper accounts.
A fishing tradition, passed down
Fishing trips were a family tradition that carried from Joe Roling’s generation to Bob’s. Family memories recall Joe taking his children to Bull Shoals Lake and the White River, sometimes joined by Frank Roling, Ben’s son and Johnny’s brother. Bob later took his own children, with stays over many years at Gaston’s Resort and dock and, later, Newlands trout dock in northern Arkansas.
Source: family recollection recorded in October 2026. The dates of the remembered trips are not established. The newspaper notices below document Bull Shoals Lake and Table Rock-area outings; the White River and resort details remain family recollections.
1956 and 1959 · Fishing trips in the newspapers
A November 1956 notice reported that Alvin Monnig, Joe Roling, Frank Roling and Bob Roling had spent a weekend fishing at Bull Shoals Lake in Arkansas and had a successful catch.
A separate notice in May 1959 described a Table Rock-area trip by Alvin Monnig, Joe Roling, Bob Roling, Frank Roling and Maurice Tebbe. It reported their return “last Thursday,” with poor weather early in the week followed by good fishing on Wednesday and Thursday.
These are two distinct newspaper reports. Neither identifies a resort or states the men’s family relationships; the relative day references do not establish exact trip dates.
Sources: “Fish In Arkansas,” Salisbury Press-Spectator, November 16, 1956, page 1; “Took Fishing Trip,” Salisbury Press-Spectator, May 1, 1959, page 7. Newspaper titles, issue dates and pages are shown in the supplied screenshots’ viewer headers. Family-held screenshots; exact original-page URLs have not been established.
November 1959 · Deer and fish in southern Missouri. A third, separate notice reported that Joe, Ben and Bob Roling and Al Monnig were getting deer and fish in southern Missouri. It gives no exact trip dates or more specific location, and does not establish that Al is the Alvin Monnig named in the earlier reports.
Source: “Get Deer And Fish,” Moberly Monitor-Index and Moberly Evening Democrat, November 14, 1959, page 8. Family-held screenshot; publication title, date and page from the newspaper viewer. An exact original-page URL has not been established.
A week in the Ozarks
Joe Roling also went fishing with friends from Salisbury’s business and professional community. An undated clipping lists him among ten men who left on a Sunday for a week in the Ozarks. His companions included Frank Nagel, Harry Jacobs, Oscar Horton and Elmer Bills. The notice names no particular lake or resort.
Source: “Businessmen to Ozarks for Fishing Trip,” family-held newspaper clipping, page 1. Its publication date and full newspaper heading are cropped; the visible heading is consistent with the Salisbury Press-Spectator. The missing date prevents us from securely matching it to the dated outings above.