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Iowans Chase Smelt Run From Lake Superior Shore
Four Iowan smelters travel 500 miles to Chequamegon Bay Ashland Wisconsin for a brief spring run. They crowd the beach at Bay Manor a man made breakwater site for a night of cooperative seining and haul five 20 gallon cans of fish to share with Legion fries and charities back home in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Superior
Superior
Ron Salven
Sixth Ave
Marion
Emily Nemec
Ashland
Wis
Salven
Collins
L.M. Stones
Fifth Ave
Larry Behnke
Anamosa
Robert Hurst
Oelwein
Bay Manor
Chequamegon Bay
Allen Barnard
Toddville
Chequamegon
Charles
Wisconsin
American Legion
Cedar Rapids
Phyllis Holland
Kirkwood
Phyllis
National Oats Co
Iowa