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Ice fisherman land dozens at Antero Reservoir |
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:30 |
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Dave Bryant shows off a "typical" South Park rainbow hauled in through the ice of Antero Reservoir.
Story and photo by Scott Willoughby, The Denver Post
SOUTH PARK — There is more than one reason it's referred to as fishing hard water.
Ice fishermen don't have the same advantages as those fishing open water. From the surface, they can't see feeding fish, the subtle currents of a lake or even how deep the water is. Just a vast, stark landscape of windswept ice, frozen solid about a foot thick at Antero Reservoir this week in South Park.
Yet, for die-hard hard-water fishermen like Dave Bryant and Bill Miller of Lake Ice USA, it's all part of the allure.
"We're ice fishermen," Bryant said during yet another productive early-ice outing Monday. "I guess it's just the challenge."
"We do the open water. We do the trout fishing," Miller added. "But for us, this is it."
Learn how Bryant and Miller managed to catch more than 15 fish by 8:30 a.m. Monday.
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