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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Three commercial fishermen in a boat lifting a trap net. In the bottom right foreground are the hands of another man holding the opposite side of the net f... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group of men are snagging sturgeon from a bridge over the Wolf River. A sturgeon is hanging from a line. More men are sitting on a bridge support, ... |
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| Description: | View of the giant walk-through musky and other oversized fish at the National Fishing Hall of Fame. A small group of people is visible in the mouth of the ... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin promotional decal with a drawing of a hooked muskellunge leaping out of the water. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of freshly caught German Brown Trout, lying near a net and fishing pole. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people in a park along the shoreline waiting for the White Bass run. |
| Date: | 07 28 1933 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard in the Tall-Tale style. Two men standing on the shore are pulling a third man's leg out of a enormous fish's mouth. Two automobiles and ... |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of the boat landing in front of Cliff House, a resort hotel, in Devil's Lake State Park. Two men show off their catch of seven fis... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Five men in three wooden row boats lifting fyke nets out of northern Wisconsin lake. The men are doing conservation work, netting for walleyes and muskies. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men in a wooden rowboat checking a fyke net on a northern Wisconsin lake. One man is standing, holding a fishing net full of walleyes. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men, each in a wooden row boat, collect pike fish from a fyke net on a northern Wisconsin lake. One man is standing in his boat holding a fish net hold... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men, one standing one crouching, in a wooden rowboat on Forest Lake. The man standing is reeling in a fish that is making a big splash in the water. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of people on boat dock on Namakagon Lake. Some of them are holding stringers of recently caught fish, and wooden rowboats are tied to the doc... |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station. |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Oscar Lochner (right) watching a committee member wearing a fur coat and hat weighing his catch. |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ken Christenson pulling a perch out of a hole cut in the ice of Lake Mendota during sub-zero weather. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two people holding a stringer of trout caught on Siskiwit Lake. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men standing on dock each holding a lake trout. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | An ice fishermen sitting in a shelter bobbing for fish on Lake Superior near Cornucopia. |
| Date: | 06 1926 |
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| Description: | A man poses holding a fish in both hands. Two boys wait at the service window of a log cabin. |
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