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- Jim Erickson: The fishing has been in my blood all my life.
Martin Erickson, my grandfather's name,
he came from Norway around the turn of the century,
and when he seen Bayfield,
he seen the lake and the hills and the rocks,
I think he thought he was back in Norway.
And then he went to work for Booth Fisheries,
he started with a rowboat,
caught a few fish and bought some more nets,
got a bigger boat, and at one time
he owned three or four boats.
So then they were going all year.
There was 45 boats going out of Bayfield at one time,
and maybe even more, that's what kept Bayfield alive.
Then he bought a farm back over here
and he cleared all that land by hand,
[explosion] team of horses and dynamite.
My grandmother had took care of the farm
and he took care of the fishing.
Martin always told a funny story about,
"Christine never went broke on the farm
"as long as I made enough money fishing." [laughing]
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