Ice Fishing Lakes

Ice Fishing Lakes

Ice fishing lakes can be any lake as long as it freezes over and has game fishes in them. Saying that, the Great Lakes of New York and Canada makes excellent ice fishing lakes. For such huge size, a better part of the Great Lakes seldom freezes over. But those that do, smaller lakes like Lake Erie, or those shores where ice gets more solid, these lakes provide the most rewarding ice fishing experience.

Rare fishing estuaries like Lake Erie provides a year round fishing: open water fishing for warm seasons and ice fishing for colder seasons. That's why Lake Erie has become a haven for fishing enthusiast that in the past fish populations were severely decimated. Today, fishing populations are maintained by the Fishery Commission, introducing fry to support the demand of game fishes.

The safest area for ice fishing, where the ice is at its thickest usually and the wind isn't as strong is near South Bass Island on the waters between Rattlesnake Island and Green Island. Another place in the ice fishing lakes is the stretch west of Catawba Island. Dozen areas in the Sandusky Bay can also yield good game fish, with walleye and yellow perch especially being the most desired game fish.

Minnesota, bordering Alaska, is one of the coldest states of America. But what makes ice fishing so prominent in Minnesota is the presence of its thousands of lakes, a good number of them completely freezes over. Because of this and because of the abundance of game fishes in depths that usually isn't accessible except by motor boats, ice fishing became as popular as it is rewarding in Minnesota.

Lake Superior is Minnesota's share of the Great Lakes. Lake Superior offers an amount of ice fishing lakes though for its size, it doesn't completely freeze over. But what amount of ice that freezes; on some parts it is thick enough to support weight. Cragun Lake is one of Minnesota's rewarding lakes that many ice fishing resorts have propped up on its shores. Another is the Big Stone Lake, famed for its abundant stocks of walleye and northern pike. Another is the Cass Lake, of which several choice species can be found: walleye, perch and muskellunge.

Outside United States, especially on Europe is a wealth of ice fishing lakes. Just like Lake Peipsi in Estonia where in better parts of winter it freezes over. Because of strong winds and rough current, the ice that forms over Lake Peipsi becomes very unstable, with cracks forming several yards wide. But due to the wealth of game fishes, particularly pike, perch and sparling, ice fishing only becomes very prominent.