The ice-fishing season is upon us in Minnesota, and right now the ice is very clear, so it’s important to always matched your line to the body of water you’re fishing.
Brad Hawthorne ventures onto early Minnesota ice and shares a few tips for finding and catching walleyes on first ice.
So far, the early ice-fishing season has featured clear ice and no snow cover. Warm temps have hindered ice making in some areas, but it looks like the clear-ice scenario will really take off now
I absolutely love early ice! It’s amazing how shallow fish can be this time of year. I generally will start very shallow for most species. I seek out shallow weed flats or bays that have
Anglers have strategies when moving from soft water to hard, but with mapping capabilities available, it’s not difficult to create a plan for where to try ice fishing first.
Experienced ice anglers know that first ice/early ice can be one of the best time periods to catch fish, but only if you know what to look for and how fish behave under the ice
No ice angler would dispute that traveling to suitable fishing locations on a lake is easiest via snowmobile, ATV, pickup, etc., but during the early season, traveling by foot is not only safest, but also
Open-water fishing is not over yet! The fall walleye bite kicked in for this angler in mid-November, and boy, are they on the chomp. My tactics in November are basically upsizing my minnows and giving
With the unseasonably warm weather, it seems like walleyes really started their fall bite later this year. It’s unusual to be able to fish comfortably during deer season, but this year is the exception.
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