Chris Wernicki is a longtime fisherman, but he had never taken his son ice fishing before this week. On Tuesday morning, though, Wernicki, a resident of McKean in Erie County, found himself in an ice ...

Fishing is among Fairbanks’ more popular summer pastimes, but it’s also one of the few outdoor recreational activities in Alaska that can be enjoyed across the seasons. It just looks a bit different ...

No, really. A trip with a New Hampshire guide reveals how much the sport has evolved, while keeping the eternal battle of angler and fish at its heart. By Steve Macone With frozen dirt road crunching ...

2019 was Alaska’s warmest year on record and, toward the year’s end, this caused a delay for one group of winter outdoorists: ice fishermen. Both Fairbanks North Star Borough and Alaska State Parks ...

Christa Pike received the death sentence at age 18 for the 1995 torture slaying of Colleen Slemmer, who was a fellow ...

“Sit with your back to the wind,” My dad would say. I don’t have a lot of memories of ice fishing as a kid, but that was one of them. I was sitting on a five-gallon bucket, trying to tolerate the cold ...

Ok, I’m not a hard-core died-in-the-wool ice fisherman. I’m a fair weathered ice fisherman. Well, I guess there’s no such thing as a fair weathered fisherman or you’d never go ice fishing. It’s always ...

ELK RIVER, Minn. — Most anglers are content to buy the best gear they can afford and accept it’s limitations. A few of them, though, are incessant tinkerers who are never satisfied with the ...

Thane Melton has fished long before his first memories. When he was 18 months old, he was already accustomed to an ice fishing hut. The Bigfork resident and avid fisherman, now 37, has had a lifetime ...