Ice Fishing in Wisconsin

• “FLAG UP! Walleyes cooperate as season draws to close”
  2/21/2012 9:40:00 AM
  Dick Ellis If a watched pot will never boil, these tip-up flags ready to trip on the Minocqua Chain in Oneida County didn’t stand a chance.  Which led to a serious question Thursday as the curtain began to fall on the inland gamefish season. Who cares?Forty-one degrees said the mercury. The sun was dropping in the southwest against bril...
• Following Mobile Crappie Schools Increases Success
  1/25/2012 6:55:00 PM
  By Dick Ellis               The Big Eau Pleine miniature mountain range continued to grow as Phil Schweik rode the power auger through 20 inches of hardwater on the 7,000 acre reservoir south of Wausau.  First light had brought with it just a new kind of blindness as a daw...
• Electronics locate Mendota perch in 70 foot depths.
  1/25/2012 5:20:00 PM
  By Dick Ellis Bruce Keldahl kneels on the ice of Lake Mendota, sends the jig south on the “hanger-rig” express through the augured hole and 70 feet of water, then watches the screen of his electronics as intensely as the rest of us might have watched a 4th and 26 the Sunday before.  Keldahl has only assumed the position of the ice...
• Sawyer County: Big Crappies Lead The Chase
  1/12/2012 6:25:00 PM
  By Dick Ellis The battle here on the Sawyer County hardwater was as much with the January elements as with this roving band of big crappies being picked off one by one in an angler’s game of hit and run..  Sitting still over an augured hole or two would work.  The fish will come by again eventually. But the stationary ambush is not...
• Hardwater Gold
  1/12/2012 4:10:00 PM
  By Chris Powell Well it’s just about that time of year to go hit the ice, and here in northwest Wisconsin, we have bountiful opportunities to hit ice fishing gold. First ice around here is usually hot. Lakes such as Marshmiller, Otter, the Chetek Chain, Menomin, and Miller Dam are popular with local anglers in search of a good meal of bluegi...
• First Ice: Great fishing, grave danger
  1/12/2012 2:15:00 PM
  By Bill Whiteside Everyone knows that first ice can be the best fishing they have all winter. Some of us waiting all summer for hard water and others just putting away their open water equipment are fired up to fish the new ice fishing season. First ice means you haven’t fished since last ice, so you have a lot of things to think about. You...