Dec

18

Pro Tips Using The Top 4 Ice Fishing Lure Styles

Top 4 Ice Fishing Styles

Lace up the right lure at the right time and you’ll put more fish on the ice. To help you do so, ICE FORCE enlisted four top pros to share tips for using the top-four ice-fishing lure styles – spoons, jig-and-plastic combos, rattlebaits and minnow-imitators. Continue reading

Nov

26

New VMC Ice Jigs & Spoons Designed With Input From ICE FORCE Pros

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Serious Ice anglers have a new battery of weapons this winter – five jigs and four spoons from VMC. Forged from top-quality materials with input from ICE FORCE pros, these new baits bring to life a wish list of ice fishing’s top sticks. Continue reading

Nov

26

Travel Light At First Ice With Lazer Hand Auger, Glide-Lite Sled and Troller 2.0

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Traveling light at first-ice doesn’t mean hitting the hardwater without the best tools for the job. From augers, to sleds, to sonar units, ICE FORCE has all you need to hole hop safely and successfully on early ice. Continue reading

Nov

13

Replace Your Auger’s Fuel, Oil, Before First Ice

StrikeMaster Prepping Your Auger Before First Ice

Before your yard’s last mow this fall, fill your LawnBoy with the gas left in your StrikeMaster auger.

“When the days shorten and the nights chill, that’s my cue to feed my old auger gas to the lawnmower and weed whipper,” says ICE FORCE Pro James Holst, host of In-Depth Outdoors TV on the Fox Sports North channel. “I don’t care if they don’t run. If they don’t, I might get out of some yard work!” Continue reading

Nov

13

A 60-Cent Sticky-Zipper Fix And Other Ice Shelter Prep Tricks

Otter Shelter Prep

Forget your lips, apply Chapstick to your teeth – the zipper teeth on your Otter ice shelter, that is.

“Just a simple run of Chapstick up and down that zipper and you’ll never have a jam up,” says ICE FORCE pro “Jonny P” Petrowske, a full-time guide on Upper Red Lake. Continue reading