Crappie Fishing Through the Ice

Friends and I woke up to the Great Northwoods of Wisconsin this morning to begin our annual three days of ice fishing.  The thermometer read an invigorating -17 below zero.  Back in my college days up in Ashland, Wisconsin, -30 hardly made me flinch.  These days I’m...

Frigig Cold & Wind Shorten Last Day on the Ice

Wind shook the Chippewa Retreat Lodge starting in the wee hours.  By the time I got up to meet the guys for ice fishing, everyone but two of the guides, Joe and James, bagged the idea of fishing.  I layered up and off we went.   We didn’t go far from the lodge...