Tricks and Tactics As the ice season starts, you make your way to your starting spot on safe ice. Once […]
Takasaki’s takes: tools for ice-fishing success Ice-fishing has progressed immensely since the early days. Then, poorly dressed anglers began their […]
Good to eat? Good to go. Some of the greatest lures of all time don’t necessary look like anything in […]
Hard Water Spots Throughout our Midwest river systems are many backwaters and sloughs where an angler can experience some of […]
Fish’N’Tales author Dan Galusha’s top ice-fishing tools Through the years, many questions about what I use at the end of […]
Gold, gold, and gold. The past couple of days the color gold has been the go-to choice. Specifically in the […]
Coralville, IA – Iowa’s Custom Jigs & Spins has released its 2018 catalog featuring many brand-new lure designs and added colors for popular […]
Peruse the aisles of your favorite tackle store and you can’t help but notice the array of packaged soft baits […]
It’s called the “one-two punch” when ice fishing—jigging one line and deadsticking, or, basically a live minnow under a bobber […]
Whenever a winter season becomes significantly “influenced” by consistent weather events or ice anglers are faced with the extremes of […]
For many years ice fishing rod/reel combos didn’t have reels—they were just a rod with a couple of cleats on […]
Although small, many lakes hold fantastic numbers of big walleyes, jumbo perch, bluegills and huge crappies. Too much fishing pressure […]
We had a nice school of white bass all to ourselves. It was chaos on Lake Poygan too, with trucks […]
If you’re looking for a hot ice fishing bite for walleyes, aim for Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs right now and […]
Over the past decade, aggressive search tactics for walleye have been trending across many fisheries, particularly large bodies of water […]
I’m enjoying seeing my daughters out on the ice. The gas-powered augers are too big and heavy for them and […]
Mention ice fishing to many and you get a remark such as, “People who fish on the ice are crazy” […]
Ice fishing encompasses a wide variety of forms, preferences and tastes—this diversity truly shows through when you look at what […]
Thoughts of setting foot on a frozen waterway don’t sit well with many. The only ice these individuals consider “safe” […]
On many fisheries go-to panfish bites can take place out over deeper water. North Dakota’s Devils Lake often sees deep-water […]
Winter is long enough in the Ice Belt to be broken into early ice, midwinter and late ice, with the […]
Here are some quick ice fishing tips and musings to mull over: Jigging spoon vs. teardrop spoon Profiles, colors and […]
Intrigued with expanding use of tip-ups this winter but feeling somewhat intimidated how to do it? These tips should help: […]
