Tom Pink: Checking its stomach will tell your fish’s story

Too many hours of staring into an empty spear hole in my ice shack lately has me wondering about what I can do to get more fish to appear. While the fishing was good in January, it has slowed considerably in February, which is traditionally a slow time for ice fishing in many places.
A long-standing practice for many anglers luring whitefish in Michigan’s St. Mary’s River is to put down a “feed bed” of any combination of things, mostly cooked rice, canned corn, and oatmeal.

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