Lake Erie Charter Life
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Captains were few and far between in 1979, when Tibbels Marina in Marblehead, Ohio got into the fishing charter business on Lake Erie. A few years earlier, in 1975, the state had 46 captains on Lake Erie. A few years later, when the Tibbels family launched its first boat, there were about 156.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2024/07/lake-erie-charter-life/