For years, ice anglers were told they had to downsize to catch fish. Fish are cold blooded and their metabolism slows in winter, so we need to use tiny lures to catch these fickle feeders, we thought.

Small ponds will be ice-fishing magnets for panfish, and bluegills and crappie should be biting on small jigs and maggots.

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As wind and snow blew hard across White Bear Lake on Dec. 31, Mark Walker was keeping to his winter clock. This time of year, ...

Minnesota's sprawling Red Lake is a true walleye factory and a top ice fishing destination. Every winter, thousands of walleye anglers pour onto Upper Red for good reason. But if you don’t follow the ...

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SPICER — A lot may have changed from the days when ice anglers pulled their homemade fish houses of canvas or wood out on the lake, but it doesn’t really matter if you’re towing an Ice Castle ...

As January typically ushers in some of the coldest temperatures of the season, the many ponds and lakes across northeastern Pennsylvania aren’t completely sure if they want to freeze over for “hard ...

Crappies intrigue me. They also puzzle me. My obsession with this fish species dates back to my earliest days as an angler. As a 10-year-old, during a family vacation near Hayward, Wis., I could see ...