Lets do something different next time (beach tarp)

Brothers Jacques and Tony LeBlanc describe the constant creativity and adaptation required of tribal fishermen because of the interference of the Department of Natural Resources officers and others. Tony describes a particular instance along Petoskey Beach, before courts acknowledged the tribe's right to fish, when a DNR officer was about to catch them at night. The family hid their small row boat in the woods and returned to the beach to collect their gear. With the DNR officer approaching, they concluded they could not run without attracting attention. They hid under a green tarp they "puffed it up" to resemble a rock. The boys could hear footsteps as one officer told the other "look at everything because them guys hide with the best of them". The officers walked passed and down the beach and the boys came out from the tarp and made their escape.

(interviewed June 30, 2008)