Saturday was a great day for the annual Scott Brow Kids’ Fishing Day in Northport. Several hundred kids and their parents attended the event during the course of the day. There were people from all around Leelanau County, and also from Traverse City, Frankfort, Elk Rapids, and no doubt other far flung locations. Omena was well represented there , as well. OG and Kristin DelaFuente were there with their daughters, Emma, 7, and Esme, 3. Karl Krusel came back from college in Grand Rapids to go there with friends.
Congratulations to all of the volunteers from the Northport Sportsman’s Club for their hard work on the event. The Fishing Day chairman, Ryan Blessing, said that it is a legacy event that brings the community every year. It has been going on for around forty years. It is a multigeneration event. There were many parents there who had come as kids themselves.
The event wouldn’t have been possible without the support from many. Thank you to Northport Building Supply, Dan Scott Builders, Barb’s Bakery, Jon’s Barbershop, and the Michigan DNR. Thanks to Security Sanitation for donating their services. Many thanks to the Northport Department of Public Works for making sure that everything is in good shape at the Mill Pond for the event. Special thanks to the Halley McDonald Foundation which made stocking this year’s trout possible. The trout that the event was able to procure were larger this year, which made it quite exciting for the fishers, but were also quite a bit more expensive. When Halley and his wife Kate heard about that, they stepped up to cover the difference. It has been an important part of their family for a number of years. Their grandson, Grady Price, who lives south of Suttons Bay, has a tradition of spending the night before with them. He and Halley head to the Mill Pond first thing on Saturday morning. And he caught one of those big ones this year!
