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he needed a marriage license as well.
After the wedding, Kolender was
included.

Men's Rules

As the trip became more popular, the
family established guidelines to deter-
mine who could come. The first rule:
you had to be family, either by blood
or marriage. Second, you had to be at
least 6 years old and know how to
swim; relatively younger attendees
could attend only if their father was
also on the trip.
Two years ago, the group admitted
their newest member, Danny
Aronovitz's son, Benjamin, who
became the fourth generation of
Aronovitz men on the trip. This past
year, Marc Katz welcomed his son
Henry, 6, bringing the total to nine
family members.
In 2003, two more boys will come of
age. The fishing trip is for the males of
the family only — in fact, Leonard and
his wife Eleanor have been married 37
years "and I've yet to see this place,"
she laughs. Marvin's wife Adria has vis-
ited once, but not the same week as
the famed fishing trip.
Everyone has established roles for the
outing: Leonard is the exclusive chef,
while Marvin cleans the fish. But
Marvin is teaching the craft to the
younger boys.
Harry's job is to make enough poppy
seed cookies, mandel bread and bagel
thins prior to the trip to last the dura-
tion.
"It takes me a good four days to pack
the lead van," says Leonard, but he has
it down to a science. Each vehicle is
packed to capacity with groceries, peo-
ple and equipment, including extra
fishing poles for Marvin. "Inevitably,"
he laughs, "I break at least one rod
every trip.
Even with the larger contingent,
Marvin and Leonard have maintained
some of the brotherly solitude of their
original outings. They wake up at 5:30
a.m. and are on the boat by 5:45,
returning to the cabin around 7:30 to
join the rest of the group for breakfast
before returning to fishing with every-
one.
After lunch, which they say "almost
always consists of fish salad or cold
bass" left over from the night before,
the family play darts, other camp activ-
ities, or take much-needed naps.
The dinner menu: fish, cooked out-
doors on a giant 30-inch frying pan,
plus fresh fruit and Harry's mandel
bread. If there's not enough fish for
everyone, the group heads out again by
5 p.m. to ensure a sufficient meal.
Chef Leonard prepares dinner, as
many as 60 perch and eight bass to

feed his hungry crew. While the group
has been known to catch hundreds of
fish each day, they still will only keep
what they can eat. Another stipulation
is that they will only keep smaller fish.
"One time, dad caught a small-
mouth bass that weighed over five
pounds," says Marvin. "It was really
hard for him to throw that one back!"
But they recognize that it is the larger
fish that spawn and continue to fill the
lakes.

Come Nigh tfall

As the sun sets on the secluded lake,
it's back to the boats for still more fish-
ing. Though most everyone is in their
sleeping bags by 10 p.m., Marvin and
Leonard have been known to stay out
until midnight.
"It's so peaceful out on the water,
when it's so dark we can't even see each
other," explains Marvin. "The sky is so
clear, sometimes we can even see satel-
lites as they pass overhead."
The group stays a week, and rarely
sees another boat on the lake. They are
eight miles from the closest town,
which doesn't even have a gas station.
The Aronovitzes keep in close con-
tact with the owner family. Last year,
the Aronovitzes were finally able to
purchase a small parcel of land that
became available on the lake, and are
currently building their own cabin.
The necessary lumber was taken from
300 trees from their property.
They hope to use the cabin more
than just one week out of the year. The
women in the family eagerly await
their chance to cast a line in the lake
— but not during the men's week in
August.
"We couldn't be more different from
the Dunne family, yet they have
extended their hospitality to us over
the years," says Marvin.
The Dunnes would invite the
Aronovitzes to the local fish fry, and
bring them to church to meet the
entire town.
Charles Dunne, son of the original
property owner, lives with his wife and
two daughters on the property and is
handling the construction of the cabin
for the Aronovitz family.
"Originally, the focus of the trip was
to catch fish," says Marvin. But over
the years, that focus has shifted to an
" appreciation of nature and the beauty
and simplicity of the land, and has
become a family bonding experience."
Occasionally, says Marvin, he and
Leonard don't even fish. They have just
as much fun "watching everyone else
and helping the kids."
"We started out catching fish," says
Leonard. "But now the fish have
caught us."

