Eager footsteps grounded in common-sense trepidation guide our way out onto the first few inches of jet-black “glass.”
Every hit of the spud bar resonates through our eardrums. Flashes of light from the headlamp catch
In the winter of 2023-2024, I didn’t go ice fishing once. I might have been able to sneak out once or twice if it’d been a huge priority, but I didn’t.
Given the poor
Go shallow in the early ice season: go deeper in the shank of winter: go shallow again as the ice season melts away. Many members of the “Frozen Chozen” will attest there is truth to
My first encounter with a weasel was fox trapping as a teenager in the 1970s. I caught one in a No. 1½ coil-spring trap at a dirt-hole set for fox. I admit I set my
I was 13 when an opportunity for a rifle hunt came together in north-central Pennsylvania, the region where my grandfather immigrated to and met the woman who would become my grandmother. The hunt started a
My knees were starting to bang together. I wish I could’ve pulled the ice hole closer to the little fire I’d constructed but that was physically impossible.
The sun was deep into the high
By this time of the season, the dumb roosters are dead. Some soaked up a load of 6s, some got picked off by avian predators, and some probably met their demise in more bland but
We are starting the 2024-25 ice-fishing season off well in Minnesota, with ice conditions much better than the previous couple of years. Luckily, the snow has held off, allowing the ice to form properly.
Tip-up fishing for northern pike can be exciting in itself, and there also can be a chance for a bonus walleye at times.
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