Glare report: 11/11/04: Ice fishing

[pegkerr]

Little to report: I didn't read any more of Icy Pleasures today because I've been reading the copy of Moral Politics that minnehaha lent me, and I know others are also waiting to read it so I want to get it back to them.

I didn't start writing at my usual time because after reading to the girls (we've started A Scholar of Magics, 1crowdedhour!) I retired to the bath to nurse some soreness. (Not karate. Cramps. Ow.) But I did think of a scene that I can tack onto something I've written previously, and it felt real enough. The idea pleased me.

Alas, when I got to my computer, I got the "Hard Disk Full" error again. Cannot download my e-mail on the desk computer again (I can do so on the laptop, however, if anyone's trying to reach me). So I was doing computer maintenance, deleting e-mail, etc., instead of working on that scene. I'm not worried, though; it feels like a good solid scene; I mean I can see it and feel good about writing it, and I hope to get to it this weekend.

An actual query for information; please reply if you happen to know: what bait do people use when ice fishing, esp. in Twin Cities? Lures or worms or??? (Hard to dig for worms in the winter; do they sell them in bait shops in the winter? Are there bait shops open during the winter?) And this may seem like a stupid question, but how do people generally get the hole in the ice? Do they chop it with a hatchet, and then saw it with a saw? Do ice fishermen have special tools they use for breaking the ice?

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[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

They're allowed to use bait, then? Last state I went fishing in, only people 12 & under were allowed to use bait.