Ice Fishing for Giant Sheefish in the Arctic Is a True Winter Adventure

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Ice Fishing for Giant Sheefish in the Arctic Is a True Winter Adventure

We’d been jigging spoons for five hours. We drilled through eight feet of ice to reach water. We had yet to get a bite. “It’s so peaceful out here,” my wife, Tiffany, whispered, not wanting to break the silence of the Arctic air. A smile and a wink were all I could muster. Our feelings were mutual. We were sitting on the frozen sound of Kotzebue, Alaska, our breaths mingling in the still air. It was March, and the first time in 21 years that Tif…