My friend Bob Jensen of Grand Forks called the other day wondering if I wanted to go walleye fishing. There was a new North Dakota lake he wanted to explore before taking some grandkids fishing, and ...
The current status of winter fishing is better appreciated and understood with a look back at where we were when the ice retreated last spring. Doug Leier “At that time, we had roughly 430 lakes in ...
The first time I felt safe enough to check the ice thickness was Thanksgiving weekend. It wasn’t safe yet at 1.5 inches. A week later and it still wasn’t. In early December we had 50-plus degree ...