Wisconsinite Alan Hintz has been ice fishing for more than 50 years, and he’s fished a lot of places in that time: from small ponds in the Midwest to Canadian rivers to the famed waters of Lake Erie.

Aaron Opsteen's ultralight ice rod bent double as a solid fish walloped his spoon. "Opie" reeled with keen anticipation. Was it a walleye? A jumbo perch? Seconds later he got his answer as a chunky ...

Late winter often produces the biggest perch of the entire ice fishing season. The 60-degree sun beat down on me like a death ray. The foot or so of softening ice I stood on acted like a mirror, ...