A freshly caught walleye glows in the light of the setting sun during early ice season. / Joe Shead The early ice period is one of the best times to catch walleyes during the hard-water season. At ...

DULUTH -- Considering that Dave Genz has been involved with most major advancements in ice fishing over the last 40 years, it probably shouldn’t have been a surprise to see him pedaling a ...

Tip-ups probably account for the majority of pike caught through the ice. Countless others are caught incidentally by anglers ...

Ed and Charlene Green have been keeping a close eye on the ice reports from Lake Ontario’s Chaumont Bay all winter. Two weeks ago they finally made the trip north from their home in Northampton, Penn.

Ice fishing is a winter pastime throughout many northern communities. Once lakes, ponds, and backwaters freeze solid, anglers drill holes through the ice and present a mixture of live and artificial ...

The walleye is better known for its flesh than for its fighting abilities. But we still respect it as a sportfish because its oh-so-light bite makes it oh-so-hard to catch. A good spinning rod for ...

We are part of The Trust Project. DULUTH -- Considering that Dave Genz has been involved with most major advancements in ice fishing over the last 40 years, it probably shouldn’t have been a surprise ...

UPPER RED LAKE — Growing up in Brainerd, Lindy Frasl learned about ice fishing at a young age. So enamored was he with the sport and the cool times it offered on winter days that he built his own ...

It’s been another year of delayed ice formation, which has become more of the norm than the exception. So the first ice fishing trip of the year was executed by doing what many other Minnesotans do — ...

More than 1,700 anglers gathered at Pike Lake northwest of Duluth on a blustery afternoon Sunday for the 13th annual Big Jig Ice Fishing Contest to benefit the University of Minnesota Duluth athletic ...