We got better at ice fishing. Correction. Jane got better at ice fishing. I got better at taking pictures of Jane while ice fishing. 😉
This February day was just perfect. Yes, the ice was crazy, with lots of currents, thawing, shifting, and a generally chaotic surface, but the weather was balmy. Most people were out for a stroll, including young families.
We set up “camp”. I dug a hole (you can see the ice staff stuck in the ice), and Jane and a friend got busy.
So it starts with a tug on the line. Now, Uummannaq fjord is really, really deep, and so it’s easy to have a line that is fifty metres or longer. Easy. So there’s nothing but hard work when you get a nibble. Which makes it very important for me to preserve my role as photographer!
If you’re unlucky you snag an old fishing line on the bottom – feels like you’ve got a whale on the other end – and it’s hopeless. But, if you’re lucky, this happens:
Followed by this:
And this:
Depending on “where” we were fishing, the dogs got the catch.
Chris
Fascinating! What type of fish is in the photograph?
Fantastic! What a short, fat fish – what sort are they? I aways imagined the holes would be bigger but I guess that’s pointless effort!
Hi Elentarri and Lee-Anne! I always forget the names of things. 🙂 The fish is called Uvak in Greenlandic and Greenland Cod in English. Here’s a link to a fabulous page (in Greenlandic and Danish only – sorry) for the all important illustration. The fish in the foreground is fat with eggs. You can see them coming out. Caviar for the dogs! http://asimi.gl/da/leksikon/gr%C3%B8nlands-dyr/fisk/item/fjordtorsk-uvak