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00:00:03 - Introduction

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00:00:17 - Summer fishing with boat. Net boxes; setting of. Vats on shore where cleaned nets and dried them on reels. Needed 2 gangs; one fishing, one home.

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00:02:50 - Dressing fish on 2x4. Herring, whitefish and trout (no perch). Threw guts to seagulls. Used for fertilizer now, but not for the farm earlier because of the long distance to haul.

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00:05:10 - Lampreys and pollution effected summer fishing. Mud puppies in grandpa's nets. (Reasons for decline of summer fishing).

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00:06:04 - Attempts to halt pollution. Bands together with neighbors and other fishermen who met in taverns and fish houses in 1930's Green Bay. Tries to fight it in Green Bay and Madison; frustrations involved. Feels most quit fishing due to the pollution.

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00:11:07 - Over-fishing. Use of 'deep-subs' (nets) cleans out many fish.

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00:11:56 - Hoop nets. Made hoops of hardwood, steamed. All kinds of sport fish caught; kept enough to eat, ca. 1930s. Placing of nets changed with new law that can't set within 1/4 mile of shore. Conflicts with Oconto fishermen who came to their area and sold fish illegally.

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00:14:44 - Little Sturgeon. Once a big harbor. Canal and railroad at Sturgeon Bay brought shipping there instead. Old Stage Road ran along shore; 'main road to Green Bay' went into Little Sturgeon. Docks along road. Hauled grain, lumber; traded fish and limestone, etc. Resort area today.

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00:19:38 - Effects of tourists minimal. Those near the shore did let the cattle out. His family sold their property because of it.

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00:20:55 - Chaudoir's Dock. Hauled fruit, flour, etc. from Green Bay. only gristmill near Bay Settlement. Some boats dumped things overboard because of shallow waters; they took rowboats out to pick it up.

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00:24:20 - Explanation of fishing tools (See fishing display in the collection with corresponding numbers). 1. Shuttle. Used for mending nets. Carved of white ash local to area. 2. Stone sinker. (see tape A, side 1) 3. Cement sinker. Made of old pipe, peg put inside which was taken out after dried. Problems with; it cut twine. 4. Lead sinker. Dated from when he began fishing. Poured into molds themselves. Initialed. Got cheap sheet lead. 5. Hooked wire. Used to pull line through center of sinker.

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