As deer seasons wind down and the holiday season passes, outdoorsy folks around the region have two choices: Get a 90-day supply of good whiskey and hunker down for the winter or take up ice fishing.
In broad, general terms, ice fishing has two distinct camps, each loosely assimilated with the type of species being targeted. There are panfish aficionados (and, yes, we’ll put walleyes, northern pike and pickerel in that camp) and there are trout hunters. While Canada, a few places in the Rockies and a number of Great Lakes states rightfully boast of exceptional ice fishing spots for trout, the Northeast is home to hundreds—if not thousands—of water bodies that provide opportunity for winter-bound anglers to chase lakers, rainbows, browns and brookies. And some landlocked salmon, too. We…
