Jessica and Adam Payne and their two children, Henry, 8, and Norah, 9, didn’t get skunked ice fishing with guide Evan Bottcher on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Taylor Pond in Clinton County.
Jessica is an angling enthusiast and Norah loves fishing and eating and studying fish. While holding her first ice-caught perch of the day, Norah thanked the yellow and green squirmer and announced: “I’m going to dissect you when I get home.”
Such outings are happening regularly in the Adirondacks with the increase in interest in the outdoors amid worries of a warming Earth.
No strangers to fishing, the Paynes fished for blue gill and trout before relocating to Valatie in Columbia County from the Sierras. When asked what brought them East, Adam simply said “fire.” After the third conflagration forced the family to
