I wasn’t born a fisherman, but in Alaska it’s easy to become one.
I drove up to Mosquito Lake Saturday to join an ice-fishing outing organized by the state Department of Fish and Game.
Sport fish biologist Rich Chapell had pre-drilled six holes in the lake and I wandered off to one of them after he handed me a two-foot ice fishing pole.
Later, as sunlight spilled over the tall trees guarding Mosquito Lake, which…