While growing up in northern Minnesota we spent a lot of time at our grandparent’s house on Mille Lacs Lake, where (as you might expect) fishing was the primary pastime.[1] I was pleased to be able to relive some of those memories while attending the Minnesota Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) North Country Icebreaker on Mille Lacs (Jan. 27-29, 2023), one of over 10,000 lakes in Minnesota.[2] The “Land of 10,000 Lakes” is actually a land of 11,842 lakes, and that figure counts only those ...