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A small boy in a dinosaur-print snow jacket, blue snow pants, a fleece hat with ear flaps and blue mittens sits in a folding camp chair on a snow-covered frozen lake, holding a short yellow ice rod over a hole, with a portable propane heater and an ice scoop on the snow beside him, at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska (photo: Lisa Hupp, USFWS, public domain)

Ice Fishing Gear for Kids: What a Young Angler Actually Needs on the Ice

A kid's ice fishing kit, item by item: the rod, the jig, boots, mitts, cleats, flotation, sled, shelter and heater, what to skip, and where the money belongs.

November 12, 202621 min read

My son grinning with a rainbow trout he caught through the ice at Eleven Mile Reservoir in South Park, Colorado

Ice Fishing with Kids in Colorado: The Best Kid Fishing There Is

Why hard water is secretly the best fishing for kids — and how to actually pull it off in Colorado so they stay warm, stay safe, catch fish, and ask to come back.

November 5, 202615 min read

A father and his young son walking hand in hand up the trail into Eleven Mile Canyon on the way to the water

Father's Day on the Water

A Father's Day letter to my son — what fly fishing taught me about being his dad, and the hours that matter more than any fish.

June 21, 20265 min read