by Paul Greenberg | Feb 15, 2022 | February 2022, Nature and Environment
Terry Watson is usually much more careful. But when the chance to skitter across frozen Copperas Pond in search of big lake trout presented itself one spring day a few years back, the veteran Adirondack guide couldn’t refuse. In the course of Terry’s 60-plus years...
by Veronica Spann | Jan 1, 2022 | February 2021, Recreation
Ice-fishing on Adirondack lakes My dad’s been the captain of every ice-fishing outing I’ve ever been on. And there have been plenty. Most people envision ice fishing as a quiet, solitary activity—sitting alone on a bucket, bobbing a line up and down until there’s a...
by Niki Kourofsky | Feb 16, 2017 | February 2010
There were a surprising number of vehicles on the road one bitter Saturday morning last January—if an hour that hasn’t cracked five a.m. can really be called morning. “Fishermen,” my husband said as we passed another set of headlights. Idiots, I thought. Still, it was...