Title: A hard-water world : ice fishing and why we do it /
Authors: Breining, Greg; Kennedy, Layne, 1957-
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Ice fishing; Ice fishing Pictorial works.
Abstract: "To the uninitiated, ice fishing seems improbable, wacky, and dangerous. But every winter, more than 2 million hardy northerners go to their place on the lake: literally on the lake." "Striking story-telling photographs by Layne Kennedy and engaging essays by outdoor writer and fisherman Greg Breining capture the quirky world of ice fishing - its natural beauty and solitary subzero vigils, along with its oddball practices and practitioners." "Kennedy and Breining take readers to fun-filled if bizarre festivals that include "Guys on Ice" in Door County, Wisconsin, the Tip-Up Town USA festival on Michigan's Houghton Lake, and the supremely self-mocking International Eelpout Festival on Minnesota's Leech Lake, which honors a slimy, potbellied, finny critter. Photos offer peeks inside ice houses that range from a plastic-bag cocoon to an impossibly luxurious Adirondacks ice residence with front porch and wet bar. Travel to a frozen lake in the Boundary Waters, to ice cities that form and disband overnight, and to the Volga River near Moscow, shadowed by the KGB." "Perhaps most importantly, A Hard-Water World allows the reader to enjoy the beauty, wonder, and, yes, insanity of ice-fishing all year round and in the comfort of his or her own home."--Jacket.
Contents: Celebration of the North -- First ice -- Cities on ice -- Gearing up -- A home of their own -- Into the wilderness -- Spearing -- Anglers on the ice unite! -- Theater of the absurd.