Opinion

A fellow came up to me at the grocery store and introduced himself and said he recognized me from my photos accompanying my outdoor-oriented newspaper and magazine articles. He’d moved his family from a populous Florida city to northern Maine.  Now that’s got to be a major climate and culture shock, I remember thinking. The man wanted to introduce his youngsters to ice fishing and asked me, “What do I need for our first outing?” Having fielded that same question dozens of times over the years, my off-the-cuff retort was, “You need a friend who ice fishes and owns all the gear!”