ice fishing

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the practice of fishing through holes in the ice, either for sport or commercially.

Quotations

1752

[They sometimes make large openings in the ice, where they angle with a hook and line, and catch salmon. . . .]

1962

. . . ice fishing has been a mile slow, but [is] expected to pick up any old time.

1965

Ice fishing . . . now calls hundreds of thousands of persons . . . to lakes and rivers across Canada.