Ice Fishing Site

To me there is nothing worse than having a fish show up on your ice fishing flasher, not take the bait, know you need to switch your presentation, but don’t want to retie a different ice jig on your line. My solution to this is to have multiple rods all set up in advance.
 
Now, I [...]

A key thing to do to ensure that your bait is lively and enticing fish is to check and move your tip ups and traps.  It sure seems that a tip up checked regularly catches more fish than the ones that have been just sitting there.  It could be that the minnow is getting jostled [...]

It happened once again this year, I was speaking with a buddy and he complained about his gas ice auger not working properly.  Last year it worked great, now it would run and then die as soon as any power was applied.  After speaking we decided the first course of action was to replace the [...]

If you are ice fishing and while watching your ice fishing flasher you notice fish rising to you bait, but refusing to bite then you most likely have fish willing to bite.  These fish can be coaxed into biting, but are looking for something slightly different.  When you find yourself in this situation it is time to [...]

We have all run into this while fishing away from our ice fishing shelter.  You are fishing and catching fish, but your hole continually freezes over.  Often in order to keep the hole open we just break up the ice in the hole and remove with a skimmer.  This is a pain in the rear, [...]

Here is a great video that introduces a lot of the tenets of modern ice fishing.  Watch how they use GPS with lake contour software to pinpoint the exact structure they are going to target that day.  From there they take their gas powered ice auger to quickly punch a series of holes to ensure [...]

So rather than punching a bunch of holes and checking to see how deep you are and if any fish are located below the spot you are standing you can just shoot your flasher through the ice.  It works best if the ice is clear and not full of air holes or snow pack.  Simply [...]

When you are out on the ice, remember that the water is very cold and the fish while still eating are definitely not in the mid summer activity levels.  To that end, they often look for an “easy” meal, and often that means small presentations. 
Last winter I caught my biggest walleye ice fishing on a [...]

This is the exact question I asked when I got back into ice fishing.  It sure seems like a good amount of coin to plop down for that Marcum flasher only to see what depth of water I am fishing in.  But alas, there was my problem in thinking.  Seeing the depth of the water [...]

One thing I have noticed over time is that people like to fish where other people are.  THis is true in the summer, but when winter hits and the hard water season is upon us it really comes to the forefront.  Ice villages are a staple on many lakes, and even if you don’t have [...]