Illinois Wisconsin fishing

Finding A New Honey Hole

Fri Feb 3 22:30:00 2012

 Life has been busy for me lately to say the least, but I did manage to sneak out a few times in the past couple of weeks. Since the ice has gotten a little thicker the fish have been scattered a bit. The fish haven't quite staged in one of my usual honey holes, so I decided to do some searchin...

pistakee lake night bite

Sat Jan 28 06:09:06 2012

night bite crappies on pistakee lakeWe just got settled in at home after a nice two hour night bite excursion to Pistakee Lake on the Fox Chain. Me and Lucas gave them hell for the hour and thirty minutes we fished tonight. We proceeded with some extra caution due to the recent warm temps we have be...

one angler i know...

Thu Jan 26 14:18:25 2012

One angler I know has been waiting patiently since getting some new gear for Christmas...working some fish with a Ice 35 flasherthe result of his efforts "flag up" he called it Looks like he got his ice fishing season started, more to come from little Lucas's ice adventures of 2012!...

long lake ice fishing report

Sun Jan 22 19:20:19 2012

Long Lake in northern Lake County is one of the closest lake to my home. Given its location it is odd I have spent absolutely zero time here. Rumors around the area talk of bucket head mobs from Chicago cleaning out the panfish here in the last few years. Rumors are only rumors but my one and only t...

First Ice!

Mon Jan 16 23:09:10 2012

 It is finally here! The first fishable ice. As most of you know we have had a pretty warm start to the winter here in the Midwest. Finally the temps have dropped and the snowflakes have fallen. It was the close of the IL hunting season this weekend and the start of the ice fishing season for m...