Fishing on Ice

by Noel Vick

With all of the new advancements in technology and gear, ice fishing has come a long way from hand-lining while camped on a five-gallon bucket, shivering on a frozen lake. Fishing on Ice is a comprehensive guide that covers everything you need to enjoy one of the fastest growing forms of freshwater angling. This practical, up-to-date information clearly explains how to use the latest gear to catch the most popular winter species. Fishing on Ice will give you a first-hand look at the latest equipment, techniques, and locating methods used by the best in the business. It features real life fishing situations that are based on actual experience, instead of hypothetical scenarios at theoretical locations. And although most species become less active in the winter, you will learn the tricks that cause them to bite every time. You will also learn how to find, catch, and even cook the most popular of ice fishing species: - Walleye - Northern pike - Crappie - Sunfish - Jumbo perch - Trout - Hardwater exotics Fishing on Ice gives you a detailed look at the equipment that has revolutionized the growing industry. It covers the latest in clothing, rods, reels, line, tackle, fish houses, electronics, heaters, lights, gas-powered and hand augers, snowmobiles and ATVs, and much more. Whether you're a beginner to the sport or an expert who craves the latest advice on techniques and locations, this book will ensure that your ice fishing experience is comfortable, enjoyable, and most of all-successful.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880119268
• ISBN13: 9780880119269
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

It's a Pretty Good Book, but....

.... if you've done a bunch of ice-fishing, you don't need it; if you went ice-fishing once and hated it, it won't change your mind; and if you've never ice-fished in your life, you'd be awful stupid to try it without an experienced guide or friend. Every couple years, I go out on the ice with my cousin Dick, who's a Fish and Game warden up by Silver Bay, Minnesota. He's twenty years younger than me, and the kind of guy who doesn't wear gloves until it's below zero, and then takes 'em off to smoke. He's also my godson but we both agree that I was slack about his spiritual upbringing. I go to spend time with him; otherwise, ice fishing is too sedentary for me, I prefer spearing carp or trolling for lake trout in a kayak. The problem is, my cousin Dick is a bona fide Minnesotan; sometimes the first words he says after he wakes up in the morning are 'good night.' Dick believes in subsistence and survival. He feeds his family mostly by hunting and fishing. He smokes his own walleye and sturgeon, which believe me is another reason to stay tight with him. But he also loves high tech. His ice fishing gear amounts to a pick-up load of augers, electronic fish finders, LED bobbers and such. You'll find a pretty good evaluation of all this equipment being sold to make a simple sport expensive in this book "Fishing on Ice". You might also learn something about the 'culture' of ice fishing on the bigger lakes like Mille Lac, where there are pizza delivery services and (some people say) call girls who work the hundreds of luxury fishing huts every winter. But Dick likes cold and quiet, and knows where to find it, at lakes which I'm sworn not to name. Dick and I have talked politics just once in the past decade, when he told me with disgust that "there are a lotta fools in the southern part of the state making $25,000 a year who think they are Republicans." Northern Minnesota is the bluest rural region in the USA, by the way. I took my iPod out on the ice this morning -- two iPods, in fact, though Dick's taste in music doesn't include Scarlatti and Bach. I thought he might be attracted to the techie nature of the iPod. But it didn't work. Neither of us felt we were really 'there' without the icy silence. Too bad... I was thinking about writing a guide to classical music for fishermen, but I doubt there'd be much money in it.