Anyone who's ever fished Lake Winnipeg through the ice knows how challenging and intimidating it can be for the do-it-yourself angler, especially novices to the big lake. Few lakes within easy driving ...

BRATTLEBORO — Most of the contestants in the inaugural Artful Ice Shanties Design-Build Competition do not ice fish. Rachel Mangean, art teacher at Green Street School in Brattleboro, said she signed ...

SHAWANO, Wis. (WAOW) — This winter if you were looking for more options to rent ice fishing shacks on smaller lakes, one Shawano man has an idea. He created a website that takes the concept of an ...

Winter is coming, and many freshwater anglers are looking forward to ice fishing. If you’re not from Wisconsin, Michigan, or Minnesota, you might not be familiar with the temporary colonies of ice ...

Imagine an icy, windswept lake. A village of shanties signals the presence of parka-clad fisherfolk in camp chairs, eager to escape the bustle of family and, if they’re lucky, bring home a walleye.

For the first winter in recent years, the weather has been cold enough for local smelt fishermen to get their fix of ice fishing along the Squamscott River. Smelt shacks dot the ice from Swasey ...

Jim McPherson’s smelt fishing shacks are back on the ice at Jim’s Camps in Bowdoinham after two unusually warm winters. For ...