Stay and Go to Up Your Ice-Fishing Success
Stay and Go to Up Your Ice-Fishing Success
A two-pronged tactic of fishing in a wheelhouse and roving the ice looking for active bites can do wonders.
Photo by Matt Addington Photography January 13, 2021 By Joel Nelson
Almost everyone s first ice-fishing experience is a stationary one. The spot is the spot, and we re taught to stay on it even the same hole. So, I was confused when I first heard the term scout house in the mid-1980s on Minnesota s famed Lake Mille Lacs.
We were fishing in a converted camper and the action had been slow during the day, but we got word of a better daytime bite through a man referred to only as Sanders. Some of the houses he had were more mobile than the ice-modified fifth-wheel-style campers we were staying in, and we eagerly headed to the edge of some mud flat on the north side of the lake to sit in one of his several