Summer 2025

BONKER’S WORLD (CONT.) SUMMER ISSUE

instead of urging that I go ice fishing, I remained at her side. After the second week she seemed to be ordering me to go ice fishing, but I remained at her side. After the third week she seemed to be begging and pleading for me to go ice fishing, but I remained at her side. After the fourth week she used some old coat hangers to fashion hooks on her walker. I didn’t know what she would use them for until I caught her in the garage hooking my five gallon bucket, the auger and minnow bucket to her walker. Seems she was going to load them in my truck for me. I thought “Wow, she really wants me to go.” But how do I tell her the hard water had returned to its softer state?

Then, like a rock to the head, I realized that perhaps I had been smothering her and I should have listened and gone when I had the chance. Once again I displayed my lack of grasp for the obvious. So I relented in what she termed “my obsessive and intrusive” care and started thinking of next year’s minimalist ice fishing. Just to be clear, in case My Personal Guide has any hopes this minimalist trend carries over for turkey, deer and Canadian fishing, it is for ice fishing only and then only until the ice gets thick enough for my normal load out. Anybody know where to find and hire a good Sherpa?

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