An avid outdoorsman, Jeremy Burri enjoys ice fishing. Margaret, Cathy and Dorcas tend to question his sanity, but Jeremy is far from the only citizen of the Snow Belt states to enjoy sitting by a hole drilled into an ice-covered lake, at least when the fish are biting.
Along with anlers from New England to the Dakotas, Jeremy and his fishing partner, Nick, recently travelled to the “north woods” of Wisconsin, the broad belt of heavily forested land that is found in the northern part of The Badger State. They were entered in the NAIFC, the North American Ice Fishing Championship, held on Boom Lake in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Jeremy has participated in ice fishing tournaments, but this was his first time to make it to the championship round.
They caught ten fish over the two-day championship, and their biggest fish weighed in at just under a half pound, which made them number 25 out of 72 teams. The fish were “not cooperative” and it was difficult fishing according to Jeremy, who says that on a really fun fishing day he might catch thirty fish in an hour.
Jeremy is happy not to be one of the sixteen teams whose score registered zero!
Congratulations, Jeremy, on making it to the championship level, and we wish you cooperative fish and easier angling next year!
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