To The Bone

To The Bone

Breaking the Ice

Dipping my toes into the icy waters of winter fishing

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Hank Shaw
Feb 25, 2025
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Sunset on Lake Bemidji.
Sunset on Lake Bemidji.

Last week was not the first time I’d ever gone ice fishing, but it might have been my fifth? All but one trip has been in Minnesota; the exception was an epic trout fishing day in California’s High Sierra where the ice was two feet thick and the air temperature in the 60s. So yeah, I really don’t know much about this whole hardwat…

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