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A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It |  | Author: Greg Breining
Creator: Layne Kennedy
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 534460
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0873516249
Dewey Decimal Number: 799.122
EAN: 9780873516242
ASIN: 0873516249
Publication Date: November 1, 2008
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Product Description
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 storytelling 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, 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.
Most importantly, A Hard-Water World allows the reader to enjoy the beauty, wonder, and, yes, insanity of ice fishing in the comfort of home.
Layne Kennedy's photographs have been published in National Geographic Traveler, Sports Illustrated, Life, Newsweek, Smithsonian, and other magazines. Greg Breining writes frequently about the outdoors for national magazines and newspapers.
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 A Hard- Water World January 5, 2010
Overly Hackled (The frozen North)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received this book for Christmas. I'm a long time ice fisherman and found this book to be a rewarding read. The photography is excellent. This is not a "How to Ice Fish" book but rather a graceful walk across the ice and the world and wonder of ice fishing.
You will hear the snow crunch under your boots and watch your frozen breath disappear into the frozen blue morning sky of distant lakes in one chapter. In others you will visit the strange, often exotic and colorful world of the Ice fishing house and their entrenched inhabitants.
You will find out how ice fishing has evolved from a broom stick and a bucket to what can be a high tech gizmo getaway.
This book allows you to experience what the authors describe as the Theater of the Absurd at Ice fishing competition extravaganzas.
So find a warm comfortable chair grab your favorite beverage and settle in to find out as the sub title reads..............."Ice fishing and Why We do it"
 Ice Fishing for the Obsessed February 8, 2009
C. Foley (St. Paul, MN)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for my Minnesota brother who would rather be ice fishing than doing anything else in the winter, including reading, and he pronounced the book "excellent." We consider him a little odd so I read the book myself for a little enlightenment and found it covers the sport from all angles and with beautiful photos. It was fascinating to read about the special equipment and ice fishing "houses" from shacks to palaces. The comaraderie of those involved comes across with the narrative on every page.
Well, pretty good but... December 26, 2009
C. Adams (Warroad, MN United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
...where was any mention of "Lake of the Woods" which is in northern MN and is shared with Manitoba and Ontario Canada? Lake of the Woods is extremely popular when it comes to ice-fishing and it's really surprising to see it left completely out of a book like this. I got this book for my husband for Christmas and he does like it and enjoyed reading it and looking at all the pictures, but feels the author overlooked some prime fishing territory when he left out Lake of the Woods. Maybe next time!
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