Ice Fishing Lake of the Woods

Earlier in January before I hit to the road to start the 2019 bass tournament season I did quite a bit of ice fishing and had some fun catching a little bit of everything.  We have some of the best ice fishing options in the World around Lake of the Woods...it's always a good time! 

The new Simms Inusulated Challenger Suit is the best ice fishing suit I have ever put on!  It's light weight but it's warm, fits well and has some great little features for ice anglers - lots of pockets, hand-warming pockets, waterproof, etc.  Highly recommended!  

My pal Nick Lindner along with his wife Jordyn, his uncle Jason and father James joined Shelby and I in early January for a few days of ice fishing...we caught lake trout, walleyes, crappies and some big perch.  Check out the video below that Nick put together.

We never used to catch these big perch in the west end of the lake but we get quite a few of them now while we're chasing walleyes...they are always a nice surprise!  Great eating!  Shelby had a hot hole one afternoon! 

Who doesn't love catching big crappies?!?!  A Northland Tackle Doodle Bug Spoon tricked this one!