I'm out here on Lake St. Clair jigging for yellow perch. I'm just outside of Mitchel's Bay on St. Lukes. This is a new body of water for me and they had installed a tree line along the ice to make it ...

Cold weather has ice on Northern Michigan inland lakes and we are seeing slowly sprouting shanties. However, the bite is slow according to the February 3, 2021, Michigan Fishing Report below. Patience ...

When you are standing on an ice sheet that’s 36 inches thick, it seems absurd to think that spring is in the air. But it was. And I could feel it. It was the last week of March, and Pete Palony and I ...

Today we're out on the ice, jigging up sunfish and perch. We're using 1/8oz stingnose jigging spoons and tipping them with one tiny piece of butterworm. ▶ If you want your own Stingnose Jigging Spoons ...

CASCADE, Idaho — Ice-fishing, a popular wintertime sport on Idaho's frozen lakes, can be a little tougher to get into than the typical summertime fishing trip. There's the gear - from augers to ...

The start of winter shouldn't dampen the amount of time you spend outside catching big fish. In fact, there's a hardy subset of anglers who are just getting started when the snow starts to fly and ...

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 ...

Big pike — really big pike — highlight this week’s ice-fishing report. Jeremy Lawrence of Northampton had his hands full, literally, Saturday during the Great Sacandaga Lake Fisheries Federation’s ice ...

Found in Michigan’s inland lakes and the coastal lips of our Great Lakes bays, Northern Pike are an exciting species to target in the arctic stillness of February. The Esox lucius. Even the scientific ...

I gave the Rapala Jigging Rap a sharp upward twitch and then, while reeling in the resulting slack line, allowed the heavy jigging lure to fall back onto the sandy bottom of Presque Isle Bay. When I ...