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New Year?

Yellow perch being pulled from an ice hole.
Fish on! Photo by Daryl Bauer, Nebraska Game & Parks Commission.

By Daryl Bauer, Fisheries Outreach Program Manager

Calendar says a new year is upon us. Whatever. Calendars are a contrived way of keeping time.

For me, the new year starts with my first ice-fishing trip of the season. Some years that occurs well before the calendar says “New Year”. Other years, unfortunately, it occurs well after (stinkin’ mild weather!).

I guess, either way, it is time to wish you a “Happy New Year”. Hopefully yours includes fish! Hoping mine soon includes one coming through an ice hole!