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Minnesota Author Will Tell Ice Fishing Tales

Think ice-fishing is a slow-paced sport? Not the way Minnesota author Greg Breining describes it. Breining will tour several Northwest Regional Libraries Feb. 25-27, telling stories and reading from his book, A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It. He'll also sign and sell copies of his book.

A Hard-Water World is a colorful big-format book of Breining's essays, richly illustrated with photography by Minnesotan Layne Kennedy, who traveled the northern states and southern provinces from Montana to Quebec to photograph ice fishermen and their houses and other gear.

Breining draws on a lifetime of fishing and outdoor experience for his hour-long program of story-telling and reading about venturing out on first ice, the small cities and lavish ice houses that sprout up on northern lakes, the sometimes controversial sport of ice spearing, and odd-ball celebrations such as Walker's Eelpout Festival. He and Kennedy even traveled together to Russia to ice-fish on the Volga River, with permission of the KGB.

Breining's other books include

Wild Shore: Exploring Lake Superior by Kayak, andSuper Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park. His articles and essays have appeared inSports Illustrated, The New York Times, Audubon and many other publications.

Breining will speak at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at Red Lake Falls Public Library. Other Northwest Regional Library appearances are as follows:

Thursday, Feb. 25 Thief River Falls Public Library, 7:30 p.m

Friday, Feb. 26 Warren Community Center, 12 p.m.

                       Hallock Public Library, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 27 Greenbush Public Library, 10 a.m.

Roseau Public Library, 1 p.m.

Warroad Public Library, 4 p.m.