Put into operation soon after launch, a typical day started at Weborg's wharf at 5:30 a.m. Finished fall of 1945, the Skipper was the first all-steel boat to fish out of Gills Rock. It cost them $12,000.00, and they named her Skipper after their father, who carried the nickname for many years. She has a 42-foot long steel hull and was powered by a 30-36 horsepower Kahlenberg oil engine. The new boat had a steel hull and house, with an aft pilothouse. Selling the Golden Girl in 1945, they ordered a new boat, built to their specifications at the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. They fished with that old boat for one more year, then decided a new one was needed. Five years later in 1944, Willie decided to sell his share of the business and the Golden Girl to Howard and Emery. Upon Alfred Weborg's passing, their uncle Willie took over the boat that was owned in part by the Weborg brother’s mother Minda. At age 64, Alfred suffered an angina attack and died while out fishing. Soon Emery joined them fishing on their father's boat, the Golden Girl. Howard began fishing with his father Alfred in 1917. Howard and Emery Weborg had been fishermen all their lives. , Howard and Emery Weborg donated the Skipper to the Door County Maritime Museum in 2002. Small ones pass through, those too large can't enter the mesh, other fish enter up to their gills and the monofilament line prevents their escape. The corks and leads make it stand like a fence on the bottom. , The principle on which the net works is also simple. Each net is three to four hundred feet long and they are packed three or four to a box.
At each end of each net the two cords are connected with a bridle. Lead weights are attached to one cord, and floats to the other. Between two heavy cords, monofilament twine is attached. It can also be made selective by varying the size of the mesh.
It is fished throughout the year, even under the ice in winter. It can be set on any bottom, at any depth, and will catch almost any fish. , Gill Net Fishing, The gill net is the most versatile of all net types. They fished together for nearly 50 years, 40 of them from just one boat, the Skipper. , Throughout their partnership, Howard took the lead with Emery acting as his second. Helping on shore, their wives Ruby and Grace worked several days a week in the wharf’s net sheds. The two of them could string a new net of 1,200 feet in a day. They strung their own nets, either at Gills Rock or at their shed in Sand Bay. , Out on the lake, Howard and Emery normally would lift eight boxes of nets, remove the fish, and set the nets back. Even when the Washington Island ferry was laid up, the Weborgs would still lift nets. They were known to go out in all kinds of weather. They worked this schedule six days a week, six to seven months a year. They loaded the net and fish boxes, torched the engine, and departed a half hour later. , Put into operation soon after launch, a typical day started at Weborg's wharf at 5:30 a.m. , Selling the Golden Girl in 1945, they ordered a new boat, built to their specifications at the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. , Howard and Emery Weborg had been fishermen all their lives.
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