Jan. 20—NEW LONDON — Modern wheelhouses, electronics and even social media have brought dramatic changes to ice fishing, but the sport of spearing fish through the ice has largely remained immune to ...

Spearing no longer has a specific opening date in North Dakota, so you can start spearing whenever you can find safe ice on which to set up a darkhouse. Last year, 60% of the respondents to a Game and ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has added Carlson Lakes in Ward County, Gravel Lake in Rolette County and West Napoleon Lake in Logan County to the list of waters open to spearing this ...

Did you spend any time on the ice last winter, spearing in North Dakota? If you did, you were part of a record 4,328 participants who registered to darkhouse spearfish, an increase of nearly 1,000 ...

Hunting and fishing overlap seasons but when you combine the two, its darkhouse spearing. In this episode of Northland Outdoors, Chad Koel takes us to his dark shack on the ice and shows how he uses ...

This weekend is your opportunity to take your kids fishing anywhere in Minnesota, for free! No license is required, thanks to the DNR. With cold temps in the forecast, another popular angling sport ...

Mar. 21—Darkhouse spearing for walleyes will be allowed on the Missouri River System, Devils Lake and Stump Lake when North Dakota's 2022-2024 fishing regulations take effect Friday, April 1, the Game ...

RAND RAPIDS -- It's 13 below zero outside. The ice on this lake north of Grand Rapids is expanding with metallic ricochets. The sound is like someone flapping huge sheets of aluminum. But in his ...

It’s relatively easy to get into spearing,” said James Preiner, president of the Park Rapids chapter of the Minnesota Darkhouse and Angling Association.

On the afternoon of the last day of the year, I trudged across the lake and made a sizable hole in the ice. My goal: to attract just one northern pike good enough to throw the spear. It was a second ...

Dec. 16—BISMARCK — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department requires darkhouse spearing participants to possess a valid fishing license (age 16 and older) and first register on the Game and Fish ...