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Fishing => Ice Fishing => Topic started by: mudbrook on February 11, 2008, 09:11:37 AM

Title: Crafting a sturgeon spear, A tradition that's frozen in time
Post by: mudbrook on February 11, 2008, 09:11:37 AM

STOCKBRIDGE — Al Schumacher raises the rubber tip of a cane far above his head toward a dark corner of his farm workshop.

The 90-year-old Schumacher deftly pushes aside a coil of electric wire hung on a nail, unveiling the business end of a sturgeon spear: a blackened, three-tined hay fork.

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