What is Ice fishing?
The basics of Ice fishing is finding an iced up body of water that contains fish. If the ice is thick enough to support you and your tackles weight then just drill a decent size hole and drop a hook and line with a bait or maybe a lure and your Ice fishing.
Of course you might of guessed like everything in life, if you want to become good add it, experience and knowledge make a big difference.
So lets get the very basic questions answered of whats required to get started.
Tackle
This website contains other sections about tackle with alot more details but first things first, you need some basic fishing tackle. Again if your new to Ice fishing you don’t need to spend a fortune and some good basic kit.
An ice fishing rod and reel does not need to be long, about 2 ft is a standard size. A basic rod and reel costs just a few dollars.
Ice fishing line is manufactured and designed especially for extreme conditions like Ice fishing and is probably a good idea to get this type of monofilament.
Bait
Most ice fisherman either use bait on hooks or jigs and lures.
The picture to the left shows a typical jig, which is designed to be reeled in and move in the water to imitate a fish in distress etc..
Making a Hole
To get access to the fish a whole must be made to drop your line into.
To drill a hole through ice most anglers need to use a tool called an auger which makes your hole in the ice.
The auger is best desribed as a giast screw with a blade that pentetrates the ice after rotating a number of times.