Meet Colby’s Ice Fishermen

Meet Colby’s Ice Fishermen

With foldover chairs, fishing rods, a drill, a sonar machine, and a bucket of live bait, Colby College’s Ice Fishing Club treks to the middle of a large clearing of snow atop a densely frozen lake. They drill a few holes, set up camp, and hope that one of the cold fresh fish beneath the ice gets caught on their line. Sitting above the ice in the middle of the lake, surrounded by pillow-like snow, waiting and watching, it is easy to understand th…