Granted Boshold is a special case. He was on the gold-medal 2010 USA Ice Team and twice was a North American Ice Fishing Champion. Those who fish first ice, in some ways safer with its elasticity and clearness than thicker later ice, are different. Greg Dickson values that difference as proprietor of Triangle Sports and Marine in Antioch.

“What you have with first ice are your true, extremely devoted ice fishermen,’’ Dickson said. “Some people go ice fishing because they can’t go summer fishing. Guys who go first-ice come into the store in October looking for new products. There are people who focus on ice fishing.

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