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Women on Ice: Frequent Lake Superior Magazine photo contributor and first-class dog lover Hannah Stonehouse Hudson was featured in a story this morning by Minnesota Public Radio. The story by Dan Kraker talked with Hannah about an ice fishing gathering she will lead today and tomorrow on Lake Superior off Wisconsin’s Bayfield Peninsula. (That’s Hannah with a brown trout she caught on her birthday this week on the Big Lake.) The Women Ice Angler Project plans the event. Hannah has been a strong promoter of teaching and encouraging women to fish in open or on frozen waters, but she admits it’s both a joy to ice fish and a sadness on Lake Superior, where her husband, fishing guide Jim Hudson, broke through the ice on his snowmobile six years ago and died. Jim was a well-known and well-seasoned guide who initiated several ice safety initiatives among local guides, but he was caught surprised by open water where just a short time before there had been ice, Hannah explained. It was Jim, who grew up on the nearby Red Cliff Ojibwe reservation, who taught Hannah to ice fish and about the best spots on the Lake. “Ice fishing did not kill [Jim],” Hannah told Dan. “He gave that to me as a gift. He gave his knowledge of Lake Superior to me as a gift. And I am never going to give that up.” Hannah has contributed a number of how-to stories on photography for our magazine, including “Dogged Pursuit of Better Pet Pictures” and “Going Viral,” which tells about her two internationally distributed photos – one of a man comforting his old dog on his shoulder in Lake Superior and another of a bear swimming near the Madeline Island Ferry.
While the angling women still intend to gather this weekend, the United Northern Sportsmen’s 66th Annual Ice Fishing Contest, scheduled for Sunday on Island Lake near Duluth, has had to be postponed because of the dangerous freezing temperatures forecast. The fishing will go on Feb. 17 instead.
We Know You Know, But … As temperatures around the region plunge from TDC (Too Darned Cold) to LJSH (Let’s Just Stay Home), we want to remind you about the dangers to pets and the dangers to any skin you choose to expose outside to the frigid air. The University of Michigan has a quite helpful webpage about the dangers of cold
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