The pitch forks worked fairly well, but I kept getting surface feeding fish in the tines. I think they were flying fish, but I don't fish much so I,m not sure. I do know that after a short ways I had several hundred of these fish in the bottom of my birch bark canoe, I was concerned the wardens might think I was spearing fish so I quigkly wove a gill net from the fine roots of cedar trees knowing that as soon as the wardens saw the net they would relize I was actually netting white fish thru the ice as that is open season (phew..quick thinking huh?)

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