“Quite often, ice fishing is so good that people can forget ... “The water that remains on sensitive areas — such as the ...

When I go ice fishing, I will be dragging my deep plastic sled, about 5 feet long. It will be loaded to the gills with ice fishing gear. Ice fishing used to be a rather simple sport, but like so ...

Any ice fishing is at your own risk ... just have to deal with more of the smaller perch. Bluegill: Good Nice gills of 71/2" to 81/2" with a few over 9" around cabbage flats of 8 to 12 ft.

Finicky ’gills will suck in and spit out your jig ... Water clarity plays a factor in catching fish, too. At first ice, when fish are shallow and the ice is thin and clear, it’s easy to ...

1. Tell someone your plan. Whether you are fishing alone or in a group, tell someone where you will be fishing in case trouble arises. 2. Test the ice. The minimum thickness to support one person ...

The Facebook group Ice Fishing Northern Indiana has been jumpin’ this past week with lots of posts about where the ice is decent, plus proud photos of freshly caught fish laying on the snow.

Author, Scott Haugen, and his wife Tiffany, with a pair of hefty sheefish. They spent nearly a decade in Alaska’s high Arctic, in the 1990s. Photo by Scott Haugen We’d been jigging spoons for five ...

(WOOD) — The World Ice Fishing Championship is ramping up in ... We had soup, raw fish like sashimi, hooked blue gills from two different lakes, smoked pork. We were there for four or five ...

When ice fishing stocked trout, knowing where to look can make all the difference. Ask your local fisheries biologist about winter trout fishing opportunities in your area. Trout are stocked in a ...

Anglers are enjoying the “hard water” that is covering many of the lakes across Pennsylvania as ice fishing is officially here. Anglers are drilling holes through several inches of ice to ...

“The blue gills have the spines that will poke you ... but we think we can compete with them.” The 2025 XXI World Ice Fishing Championship on Tamarack Lake in Lakeview.