I learned ice fishing from old guys. I was a teen, and the old guys were in their 20s, maybe 30s. These guys, when they were younger, must have learned the trade from equally old guys of their time. Back then, when my mentors were old and I was young, there were no personal sonars …
On a cold February morning I made a big “T” out across Tobyhanna Lake. Four holes, more or less straight out, starting at 5 feet and stretching to 8; and then, because 8 feet was the deepest I could find in this part of the 170-acre lake. I completed the top of the “T” with
I hadn’t fished in almost a month. Between the time of my last open-water excursion and the formation of fishable ice, my mood had gotten ugly. When finally the ice was on the thicker side of 4 inches, I packed a minimum of equipment, a drill, two rods, a tray of tackle, the sled and
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