By Al Higgins, Outdoorsman columnist
The Daily Freeman

Is ice fishing a dying sport?

In recent years - whether it's a result of global warming or simply a weather anomaly - we have had fewer and fewer days of safe ice conditions. In years past I remember ice fishing on the Lower Esopus Creek before the Christmas holidays but it's been a long, long time since anglers could do that safely.

Just last week I noticed there were no ice fishermen on the Upper Esopus Creek in Saugerties, and this has been a very popular fishing hole, as the ice there freezes well before the area below the dam.

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