Ice Fishers Brave Cold and Wind on Lake Otsego

By ERIC SANTOMAURO-STENZELSPRINGFIELD

A few hundred feet from the shores of Glimmerglass State Park, three bundled-up old college friends prepare for an evening of ice fishing on Otsego Lake. They may or may not catch something from the dark depths beneath the blinding snow-covered ice, and that’s all part of the journey.

“First time ice has been safe for us to get out,” Mike Seymour says while preparing a hole to fish from. “Some days you may have a good day, get a good perch and a walleye or two. Some days, you go home and nothing.”