Make life easier on ice… Lessons learned the hard way

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....

Bottom-bouncing below ice

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...

FISH BIG WATERS SMALL

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...

Swimbaits catch fish all fall long

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...