The Village
Ice fishing in the shadow of Mount Katahdin is a refreshing social affair.
By Andrew Vietze, Photography by Benjamin Magro
Whatever else it might be, ice fishing on Millinocket Lake is always cold. It's perhaps even the very definition of cold. First, there is the dark expanse of lake underfoot, which chills the toes and quickly freezes anything you put down upon it. Then there are the winds that swoop off nearby Mount Katahdin and make strafing runs down the wide-open water body. Even when the air is calm it carries a painful nip in this part of the North Woods, south of Baxter State Park and the Allagash, where the average February temperature is a bracing nineteen degrees.
