While walking down the aisles recently of the local bait shop, I couldn’t help but be somewhat astonished by all the ice rod models available. This experience had me thinking back to my ice fishing ...

The spring bobber has played a role in icing bull bluegills and slab crappies for as long as most of us remember. It's always been one of those tools that serious anglers searching out the biggest ...

Bobbers (called floats by some) and rod-tip spring bobbers can be good at betraying light bites, and don’t cost much. A slip bobber that is perfectly matched to a lure (perhaps with the help of split ...

BIG LAKE, Minn. — Sitting in an Ice Castle fish house parked in his driveway, veteran ice tournament angler Lawrence Luoma described the evolution of his tackle and fishing techniques during the past ...