{"id":2224,"date":"1997-01-19T11:47:21","date_gmt":"1997-01-19T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2011-03-27T03:50:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T08:50:48","slug":"from-our-frozen-fish-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/1997\/01\/19\/general-interest\/from-our-frozen-fish-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Frozen Fish Dept..."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jim Richards, Custodian at the McCarthy School, Ice fishing on Learned Pond, Framingham, MA, (January 19, 1997)<\/p><\/div>\n

FRAMINGHAM, MA - <\/strong>With the temperature below freezing for the past week, many people look for warm, comfortable, indoor activities to pass the time on a New England Sunday afternoon, but Jim Richards would rather do something he's done for the past 40 or so winters... go fishing!<\/p>\n

Richards, a custodian at the McCarthy School, packs his rig-- a handmade wooden box with ski like runners, and heads out on the frozen surface of Learned Pond for a day of ice-fishing.<\/p>\n

To pass the time Jim listens to a battery operated police\/fire scanner, and talks with friends who stop by to see if the fish are biting.<\/p>\n

Using a hand auger, Richards set five traps in the 5-6\" thick ice, (he noted that five was the the legal limit, and that you must also have a valid fishing license to ice-fish).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Many fisherman use these wooden pop-up traps so they may fish several spots at once. A baited line is attached to a trap which has a spring loaded flag. The flag pops up to show a fish has made a strike at the bait and may be hooked.<\/p><\/div>\n

When the ice gets much thicker he uses a gas powered auger.<\/p>\n

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