ASK DLFR We will take any and all questions on Fridays throughout the Ice Fishing Season and try to answer them as best we can, we will also publish some good waypoints on Fridays before the weekend so that people have a chance to get on fresh spots before the weekend warriors pound the ice too badly. So here are…
Waypoints from last weekend! We Drill Way Too Many Holes To Make A Sno-Bear Practical I have only fished in one of these over-sized snowmobiles twice in my life, and don’t get me wrong, it was comfy. If I want comfy, I’ll either stay in bed or on the couch. When I am on the Ice I attack it with…
Thursday’s We Will Talk About Trends in Ice Fishing, Waterfowl Hunting, and Open Water Fishing! One trend I’ve seen really starting to take off in the ice fishing world is the evolution of the tip-up. I am not a big tip-up guy: A. I am a terrible hand-over-hand fisherman. B. I like to feel the fish in the rod. I…
AN OFF-SEASON IS A TIME TO REFLECT ON WHAT WAS DONE RIGHT, WHAT WAS DONE WRONG, AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET BETTER. In sports, as in every walk of life, there is a busy time and a not so busy time. There is the ‘off-season’, a time when everything is kind of slow, not much to do…
Map Skills Between GPS maps and Google Earth, my mapping work is never done, I am always looking for new potential areas. That is where the fun is for me, exploration. I set a goal of adding 15-20 new hotspots every year. Some years we make it and some we don’t. There are a few areas that we probably overfish…
