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BRETT FRENCH Jared Ostermiller is willing to drive 400 miles — 11 to 12 hours from Rexburg, Idaho — just to ice fish at Fort Peck Reservoir. He’s not alone. “We’ve got guys coming in from all over the place,” said Eddie Mindt, owner of the Lakeridge Lodging & Bait Shop near the small community of Fort Peck. Why drive so far in the winter to a remote corner of northeastern Montana to ice fish? For Ostermiller, it’s because there are few places he can catch as many different species of fish — and big ones — sometimes on the same jig and bait. Mindt, who also runs an ice-fishing guide service, said anglers are willing to drive 16 hours from the Midwest and Dakotas to catch a big lake trout through the ice because it’s something they can’t do in their state. He’s even had clients from California.

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