ice fishing

Early last week some anglers on Red Lake needed to be rescued when strong winds opened a portion of the lake stranding those people. Glen Schmitt appeared on WJON with Lee Voss.

The recent cold and snowy weather isn't bad news for everyone. Ice fishing isn't far off now with temperatures consistently in the 20s and 30s over the past week and temps expected to drop to the teens for highs over the weekend and single digits expected overnight. Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News joined me on WJON.

Here is reason 1066 to love Minnesota: We take our bars out onto the ice during winter.

Ice conditions are still stable on most Central Minnesota lakes despite the stretch of 50s and 60 degree weather earlier this week. Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News joined me on WJON today. He says the local ice conditions have stabilized with 30 and 40 degree temperatures for much of this week and 30s and 40s forecasted for the weekend.

Ice fishing has become a bit slushy due to the warmer weather and sunny skies in the past week. Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News joined me on WJON this week. He says this should be the last weekend to drive any type of vehicles on the ice locally with conditions changing quickly. Schmitt says we have approximately 3 feet of ice on most lakes.

This weekend is the last weekend for walleye, northern pike and bass ice fishing in Minnesota for the season. Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News joined me on WJON this week. Those seasons close at midnight Sunday. Schmitt says fishing walleye is still accepted on the border lakes up north through April 14.

An Ohio mayor's recent "data" that ice shanties draw unwanted prostitutes may be nothing more than Minnesota's biggest fish tale.

While the scene isn't necessarily supposed to be set in or implied to be Minnesota, Minnesotans familiar with ice fishing have been quick to mock some of the scene's more glaring discrepancies.

The windy and warm weather we saw Wednesday in the St. Cloud area wasn't helping local ice conditions thee last couple of days has improved those conditions. That according to Glen Schmitt from Outdoor News.

We all have our secret spots and favorite lake to go to catch fish, and in our neck of the woods, we happen to have one of the best ice fishing destinations in the country.

One of the weirdest Minnesota festivals, held completely on a Minnesota lake, starts Thursday in Walker, Minnesota. It's everything 'eelpout', a nasty lake-bottom, ugly fish.

Thousands of people will be heading up north to the Brainerd lakes area this weekend for the 28th annual Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza.