Ice fishing in Alaska is something that’s a key part of the full Fairbanks winter experience. Can’t you just picture it? Walking out on a frozen lake to a warming hut, dropping your bait ...

Alaska does that to a person ... Soon we were drilling holes and jigging spoons. I flipped the bail on my ice fishing rod, letting the big lure free-fall. Before I could close the bail, line rapidly ...

Alaska Department of Fish and Game only stocks ... [Alaskans play the long game in ice fishing tournament on Big Lake] Delta Junction folks like shrimp for bait. Maybe so, but if the bait is ...

Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation doesn’t rent fishing equipment, but the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has a road loaner program. Ice fishing season typically begins in ...

The ice was approximately one-inch thick, an unsafe thickness for fishing. One brother is dead ... vessel in nearly-freezing waters off Alaska coast “Forest Ranger Laymon was at the Jacobs ...

Ice roads are also important for industry in the Arctic, especially on Alaska’s North Slope ... her family also use the ice road to go ice fishing, visit friends, travel to nearby villages ...

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Ozzie Demientieff and his granddaughter head downriver from Bethel, Alaska, on the Kuskokwim ... Boelens and her family also use the ice road to go ice fishing, visit friends, travel to nearby ...