The following is an excerpt from “A History of Leelanau Township” by the Leelanau Township Historical Writer’s Group.
Great Lakes sport trolling is an extremely popular pastime for many thousands of sport fishermen as well as being a multi-million dollar industry, but it wasn’t always such.
Early in the 20th century, it consisted of one man, one boat, and a handful of onlookers who wondered what it would be like to catch a fish from the clear, cold depths of Grand Traverse Bay.
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