A smitty sled provides less drag and resistance when pulling a fish house on area lakes. When snow arrives and pulling gets more challenging than glare ice conditions, a smitty sled can make ...

Just getting to and from an ice fishing trip during last weekend’s bitter cold temperatures was an accomplishment. ... Smitty Sled 2.0 will have additional support braces to handle heavier loads.

Ice-fishing sled's an off-season building project. DIANE TIPTON Fish, Wildlife and Parks Mar 22, 2012 Mar 22, 2012; 0; To stay comfortable while ice fishing, Frankie Siroky designed this ...

When we left Smitty’s with our lightly loaded sled – an ice auger, fishing gear and extra clothes – Oliva barked orders to the dogs from the rear of the sled, commanding them with “gee ...

The sled started to slide sideways and I thought to myself: This isn’t good. Our sled was 20 feet away, then 10 feet away, then closer and closer to getting pulled into a hole of near-freezing ...

Our team has been busy towing our Smitty sleds to our usual early ice haunts. Let’s get into it: Lake Superior has a progressive sheet of ice that has formed in the Ashland area.

Current ice conditions around the Arrowhead region range from 8-18 inches. We are even starting to see smaller trucks take to the inland waters in the area. Last weekend, we finally got some much ...

Ice fishing is hot in Minnesota this winter, thanks to the cold. Since Thanksgiving, the DNR has sold about 56,500 fishing licenses as anglers give in to pent-up demand. By Tony Kennedy.

CROSBY - The Cuyuna Lakes Chamber 11th Annual Ice Fishing Contest and Scorpion Homecoming is planned from noon to 3 p.m., Feb. 7, on Serpent Lake, Crosby Memorial Park. Catching the big one ...

Two brothers from Richfield Springs plunged through thin ice last Saturday afternoon while fishing on Basswood Pond, Otsego County. One of the brothers, 42 years old, was rescued; his brother, 41 ...