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Northern Wisconsin Ice Fishing Angler's Get Ready! - DrownedDesertRat - 12-03-2004
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Author: [url "http://www.lake-link.com/anglers/articles/author_articles.cfm?AuthorID=21"]Marty Papke[/url]
December 2004
There comes a time of the year when it's time to put away the boat and soon tackle a new adventure. Ice angling is and can be a very productive time for fishing and more and more every year angler's are becoming all season anglers! Many inland lakes of northern Wisconsin offer some great "early-ice" walleye's along with some great pan fishing and northern pike action.
Let's look at a typical setup and how you to can catch early "ice-eye's." Examine the fishing locations you've just finished open-water fishing, as this can be key in finding fish through the ice also.
Let's examine several early season methods and see how easy the results can be.
Tip-ups and live-bait: if there's an early season method that if clinical tested would usually work day in and day out during early ice it's setting up in areas using live-bait. Throughout the Midwest we can pretty much surmise patterns where early ice "eye's" can be found, it's where they were just prior to ice-up. The greenest weed beds, shallow reefs and....
(for the rest of the article, please [url http://www.lake-link.com/anglers/articles/article.cfm?ArticleID=262]click here[/url])
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