Enjoy the Calm of Ice Fishing in the Northwest
This is not the land of semipermanent ice fishing shacks, those clustered day-drinking dens that can look like small cities in the northern plains and upper Midwest where ice fishing is close to religion, says Tyler Hicks, founder of the Washington Ice Fishing Facebook group. That actually makes the Northwest a perfect place for a first-time outing. Here, a âbusyâ lake might have only four or five people on it, and with less competition, other fishers are generally glad to help a newbie. Tyler Hicks and a freshly caught tiger trout on Bonaparte Lake near Tonasket, Washington, j...
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