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Leo, Roy, and Eskel Hokenson began fishing commercially at Little Sand Bay in the 1920s. During the fall herring season, the brothers fished at night when cooler temperatures helped preserve the catch. Friends, noticing this habit, began calling them the twilight fishermen, and the nickname inspired the brothers to name their new fish tug Twilite. Their cousin Halvor Reiten built the Twilite at his Bayfield boatyard in 1937.
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