
Ice-fishing trick: Use minnows to mask scent and juice-up plastics
Minnows certainly catch fish, and you might want to keep them alive to give finesse plastics some added “flavor” and to mask some of the scent on your fingers.
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Minnows certainly catch fish, and you might want to keep them alive to give finesse plastics some added “flavor” and to mask some of the scent on your fingers.

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Anglers who were still fishing in recent weeks were mostly targeting recently stocked trout in small lakes, walleyes in rivers and a few lakes, and panfish.

Use your underwater camera or use your electronics to find those little green lines on the bottom to indicate weed growth. Little green lines on the electronics don’t move, signifying weeds on the bottom.

The walleyes are going on Lake Bemidji if you can find an area where there’s a bit of a break and 12 to 14 feet of water. It’s not a long bite, but you’ll get

Anglers continue to ply the open waters of Lake Erie and are catching walleyes and yellow perch with much regularity. On inland waters, the perch, crappie, and saugeye bite in shallow water has been the

Not much ice and a lot of snow, with a warming on the way, which could be both good and bad for fishing hopefuls.

Anglers are still catching decent numbers of steelhead on many of the Great Lakes tributaries.

James Holst gives a complete overview of the Humminbird ICE HELIX lineup and the key functions that provide anglers an advantage on the ice. Built with our powerful and precise Dual Spectrum CHIRP sonar, anglers
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