Fishing You Were Here, Let a Charter Be Your Guide

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It was 5:15 a.m. on a June day, and Jon Dahl was commuting to his family business in downtown Duluth.

His destination?

Jon’s idea of the ideal office: a 32-foot, big-water fishing boat. Docked in the shadows of Canal Park buildings, his Happy Hooker Marinette aluminum yacht sits at a dock only minutes from Lake Superior.

“I don’t run into a lot of traffic at this time of the day,” Jon says with a wry smile. “That’s fine with me. When you’re fishing, you have to get out early.”

By the time others were showing up for work, Jon and his customers were so far out on Lake Superior that Duluth’s skyline was barely visible, bobbing in the waves as they trolled for the large lake trout that the Great Lake is known for.

For Jon, this amounted to just another work day in paradise. His family has been

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