Traditions- Photos & Stories From My Youth!! "How long have you been ice fishing Chris?", I'm often asked. "Gosh," I say, "I can't really remember, its been along time though." I had a day off from fishing this weekend and spent some time with the parents. We had a good supper of roast beef, gravy, and fresh potatoes from the garden. After supper, I went to the closet and dug out all the old family photo albums and paged through them. I realized there were many early childhood photos of myself and brother fishing and hunting. A good number of the fishing photos were taken during winter. For some reason, I felt compelled to share some of these early moments of my life with my friends online. I can't pinpoint the exact dates on some of these photos but they are from the very early 1980s. I am about 5-6 years old in these photos and my younger brother Mike is probably 2-3 years old. I'm fairly confident that all these icefishing shots were on Union Lake near Erskine, MN (NW part of MN). That was the only area lake we fished for the first 16 years of my life.