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9781496244192 Academic Inspection Copy

Ice Tribes

Fishing with Cool People in Cold Places
  • ISBN-13: 9781496244192
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
  • By James Card
  • Price: AUD $55.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 30/01/2027
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 232 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Fishing, angling [WSXF]
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In Ice Tribes James Card makes the case that ice fishing is much more than an oddball outdoor activity: It's a sport of strategy, stoicism, and analytical skill. It can also be a sport of camaraderie, a winter lifestyle all its own. Where ice fishers gather, they create a feeling of festivity and community spirit. Card's Ice Tribes is an exploration and celebration of America's Ice Belt--the latitudinal tier where water temporarily turns solid for a few months each year and provides a playground for those who love the ice. Card fishes on remote sloughs on the northern plains and lands fish in northern lakes. He profiles innovators and inventors who have transformed ice fishing; he delves into regional practices such as spearing pike and sturgeon in dark houses and other specialized techniques for certain species of fish. In Ice Tribes Card explores the traditions of ice fishing and the science of ice formation, cataloging the joys and wonders of the sport even as he depicts the terror of breaking through the ice and ponders ice fishing's future in a changing climate.
James Card is a newspaper editor and journalist. He is the former editor of Ice Fishing magazine and the author of The Dawn Patrol Diaries: Fly-Fishing Journeys under the Korean DMZ (Nebraska, 2024) and Chainsaw Love: Field Notes on the World's Most Dynamic Power Tool. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Drake, Rolling Stone, and other publications.
"Equal parts celebration and elegy, Ice Tribes captures the unique spirit and stubbornness of those who elect to spend winters 'on the ice.' Being a native ice person, I was immediately transported back to my childhood: ice-fishing with Dad using tip-ups or jigs, ice-skating with my siblings, and going to see the sturgeon fishing in Winnebago. James Card brings alive what is so quickly being lost as we also lose the ice. It's a story about ecology, unique cultures, and memory. I enjoyed this book immensely!"--Andrew Rypel, professor and director of the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences at Auburn University "Maine has lobster traps. Florida has Hemingway's marlin boats. The Midwest has fishing with sharp augurs and little shacks spread across thousands of pothole lakes. James Card is a brilliant guide to the Heartland's hard water and a prose master who has given us a Midwestern masterpiece."--Jon Lauck, editor of Middle West Review and author of The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest
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