Ice fishing

On the weather network nowadays, an online "gallery" of people's uploaded, weather-related photos can be accessed. Today someone posted pictures of the ice-fishing (pêche sur glace) taking place at the otherwise deserted Alymer Marina on the Ottawa River, an scene typical of January in our region. It must be one of the most uncomfortable sports out there, but I dare say that's part of the attraction. All down the Ottawa River are clusters of ice-fishing huts, veritable villages which materialize for a few weeks only to disappear again when the thaw threatens, sometimes with tragic consequences. Last year in March a fisherman left it too late to drive out across the ice and fetch his hut to shore.