I was looking for new people to follow on Twitter today when I found @ladysportsman. She works for the communications department of the Sportsman Channel. After following her, I got a message that she was coming into town this weekend for the Sportsman Channel’s Hunt.Fish.Feed. event.
Hunt.Fish.Feed.SM is a really cool initiative to encourage [...]
Richard Levesque scored a new Vermont state record walleye when he caught a 14 ½ lb walleye through ice! He landed it on February 10th on Lake Champlain using a tip-up and golden shiner. Can you imagine pulling out that monster out of a 6″ diameter hole?
The picture above doesn’t look much like [...]
As a rookie ice fisherman, I’ve been deferring to my more experienced friends to know when to walk on the ice, use a four-wheeler on the ice, or drive on the ice. If I were to ever go out alone, I would make sure I see a lot of people doing something on the [...]
This week, the average daily temperature in Minnesota rises above 30 degrees F and signals the beginning of the end of ice fishing season. Ice thicknesses are still in the 2 ft range, but will start to thin and become dangerous in a matter of weeks. As the season winds down, I thought [...]
I had scheduled a blog post for tomorrow to talk about things I’ve learned about ice fishing equipment, but then I noticed that my next post (now this one) would be my 100th. I couldn’t let a milestone like that pass without at least acknowledging it.
It’s hard to believe that I’ve found 100 topics [...]
Steve, Mark, and I went out to Lake Owasso this afternoon. The air temp wasn’t terribly cold, but it was window. And it started snowing by the time we packed it in.
The fish didn’t like the weather either. We were out from about 2:30 to 5:30 with 9 holes in 3 different [...]
From my family to yours, I would like to wish you a prosperous and bountiful (fish or otherwise) Year of the Tiger.
I’ve lived in Minnesota all my life (except for a college at Purdue), but this is the first year I’ve been on frozen lakes with any kind of regularity. This year, while I’ve been a passenger in vehicles on the ice, I’ve never actually driven on the ice myself.
Until yesterday.
Driving on the [...]
Species: Crappie
Size: 9″, 8″, 8″
Lure used: yellow beaver flick with live minnow
Date: 2/6/2010
Time: 8:00 -10:30am
Body of water: An Iced Over Lake
Location: Somewhere in the North Metro
Weather Conditions: overcast and windy
I went out this morning with my neighbors, Steve and Rob, and one of Rob’s buddies, Greg. Mark had family commitments and couldn’t make it. [...]
