Month: January 2013

It didn’t take her long to get the hang of it.  Lay the tipup off to one side, pick up the line, set the hook, and then hand-over-hand the line until there’s a fish flopping on the ice.  She did not number in the millions of American children that day, the ones in the recent national statistics.  The average American child now spends 52 hours per week in front of some kind of electronic device, and 40 MINUTES per week outside!  We had to get the upper hand on those odds, so we spent 7 hours on the ice.  There was a fish dinner that night to show for it.  Makes a grandfather proud.

It was snowing straight down!  In other words, the wind wasn’t blowing–a dramatic change from the whole previous week.  Once I got out on the lake, it was a virtual whiteout.  Ian already had a 17″ brook trout on the ice, and it was one beautiful fish to behold.  For all the cold temperatures of recent days, the thickest ice we found was 8 inches.  In other parts, only 3!  The fishing was not fast and furious, but certainly good enough to keep you interested.  As usual, we socialized with any and all other ice fishermen we met.  I understand Ian had a surf ‘n turf entree that night:  Brook Trout and Sirloin Tips!  Now, how in the world can you beat that?