Eagle Nest Lake is open again for ice fishing. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and the Parks Division says the ice has become thick enough to allow all terrain vehicles and snowmobiles onto the lake.

COLD WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE CREATING AN IDEAL ENVIRONMENT FOR FISHERMEN WHO HAVE BEEN EAGERLY WAITING TO HIT THE ICE.

A 46-year-old Colorado Springs optometrist who was ice fishing died after falling into a reservoir.

A father and son are recovering after falling through the ice into Canobie Lake.

Their use was already old when the splendidly named Wynkyn de Worde published “Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle” in London in 1496.

The Van Zants extend to all you loyal readers a very Merry Christmas. Hopefully you received something worthwhile under the tree, something, like: a hot new reel or a new shotgun or maybe a case of the new steel shot shotgun shells.