12.28.2023

578 inches of fish…

 …won the Wisconsin State High School Ice Fishing Championship in 2020. The 2024 contest is scheduled for February 16-17 on the Mississippi River at Lacrosse. 

If, that is, there's ice to fish through. Just the other day, the New York Times reports

Ted Bonde, the president of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Fishing Association, said ice-fishing competitions in much of the state had been pushed back at least a week as wintertime anglers waited impatiently for the cold to set in.
In fact the entire Midwest, the Times informs us, is confounded by unseasonably warm weather so far this winter [winter arrived last week – ED.]. "Ernesto Londoño reported from St. Paul, Minn.…he managed to walk his dog, Hugo, wearing a T-shirt on Christmas Day." 

It hit 42ºF in Duluth. Which is about what it was where I am, but I'm not there.

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