Free Wild Rivers Expo highlights Ashland area’s fishing opportunities

Bob Rice got his first fishing pole at around age 7. It was a simple rig, he recalled, with a hook — on which he skewered a worm — a line and a bobber. By age 9, the Michigan native had moved on to fly fishing, often traveling north with his father in the summers. Rice, 53, was snared by the sport. Now living near Iron River, he is president of the Wild Rivers Chapter of […]