While ice fishing is fun, it’s not always easy. Extreme weather conditions can make for less than ideal equipment failure moments, which not only means you’re hampering your catching ability but increasing the possibility of going home with broken gear....
Smack it and the fish will come For anglers, the term “bottom-bouncing” is typically associated with an open-water tactic of pulling crawler harnesses or live bait very near bottom. But the term can most definitely be used for ice fishing as well, no...
by Mark Martin March 01, 2018 It’s no secret walleyes roam the waters of every Great Lake. Some waterways within the massive freshwater system with huge bays, such as Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay and Lake Michigan’s Little Bay de Noc as examples, can...
The best way to figure out where to drop a line when ice fishing big lakes is to change your mindset and think of them as small lakes with sonar, GPS and mapping by Mark Martin February 01, 2018 Massive-Immense- Overwhelming. Ice fishing the bays of the Great...
Cast-Retrieve-Repeat! Except for setting the hook and fighting a fish, that is all there is to fishing with swimbaits… by Mark Martin October 01, 2017 To tell you the truth, I was skeptical of the fish-catching ability of swimbaits when they first came to...