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On the longest coldest nights in January when the temperatures are -20F or colder at 10pm you bundle up, bring your firewood and buckets, your 4 prong spears and your Kerosene Lamps and aluminum foil and beer and snacks and head out to the frozen muddy rivers feeding off the great Lake Superior. You bring a ice saw and open a large rectangular opening which you stand around with at least 4 other people holding your spear ready to strike. You watch for the telltale snake like S movements in the muddy water and stab vigorously at nothing when you're sure something is there. Your Lights are focused on the water with aluminum foil circling the back of the lamp. A raging blaze is going close by on the hill and all people maintain a constant shifting movement from foot to foot. This goes on at least until all the beer and snacks are gone, or the stories run out.

from: Wisconsin Lawyer Fishing



Bowfin are called "lawyers" where I grew up in Northern Wisconsin. In the 1960s I spent many winter nights on the thick ice of the muddy Nemadji River spearing lawyers.

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