Feb
28
Sight fishing on the ice? Now you’ve seen it all. That’s how ICE FORCE Pro-Staffer Tom Neustrom weeds out big ‘gills in the late-ice season.
To set up his sight-fishing technique, Neustrom locates thick and heavy vegetation and then drills two holes above them as close to each other as possible. He then chips out the ice between the holes, creating what he calls “the snowman,” owing to its stacked-circles shape. Continue reading
Jan
18
With the Vikings vanquished and the Packers sent packing, focus shifts from football to fishing in much of the Ice Belt this week. But MVP anglers will borrow a page from the NFL playbook and score big going deep. Continue reading
Dec
21
Open-water fishermen follow the calendar – Opener is the same Saturday every spring; shallow smallies on rocks by mid-June; big walleyes on steep drops in late August. But safety concerns can prevent ice anglers from fishing the same spots at the same time, one winter to the next. Continue reading
Dec
6
Winter’s gauntlet poses less threat to your Otter ice house than a summer in your garage. So no matter what your Otter survived last winter – gale-force winds, rocky portage trails, 30-mile tows – how and where you stored it after ice-out will determine how much maintenance it requires before this season’s ice-up. Continue reading