A freshly caught walleye glows in the light of the setting sun during early ice season. / Joe Shead The early ice period is one of the best times to catch walleyes during the hard-water season. At ...

The bait has a cool flutter action that can dart erratically around under the ice to create a larger strike zone. While there are a lot of different baits that work well for catching perch in the ...

Walleyes are some of the most sought after fish through the ice. They are widespread and taste great. They aren’t particularly hard to catch, although sometimes they can be finicky. Try these ...

Forward facing sonar for ice fishing might feel new, but it’s actually been around for years. During the early 2000s, Gold Medal World Ice Fishing Champion Tony Boshold attached his flasher transducer ...

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 catch ...

The start of winter shouldn't dampen the amount of time you spend outside catching big fish. In fact, there's a hardy subset of anglers who are just getting started when the snow starts to fly and ...

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Tip-ups probably account for the majority of pike caught through the ice. Countless others are caught incidentally by anglers ...

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CASCADE, Idaho — While many anglers hang up their poles when winter arrives and the lakes freeze over, Idaho's ice fishermen embrace the changing landscape and take to the solitary terrain for some of ...

Saginaw Bay was ranked as the fourth-best ice fishing spot in the U.S. by FishBooker, which looked at such things as location, fish species you can reel in and whether you'll land a trophy. "The main ...