PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — TJ Erickson, Park Rapids educator, former guide and popular YouTube content creator, covers a variety of topics designed to help people learn more about some aspect of fishing.

From tips to catch first ice walleyes, to an Advent calendar for bass anglers, to ice fishing tips and resorts on Red Lake, MN, these stories captured our Sports Illustrated fishing reader’s attention ...

Minnesota's sprawling Red Lake is a true walleye factory and a top ice fishing destination. Every winter, thousands of walleye anglers pour onto Upper Red for good reason. But if you don’t follow the ...

There’s something electric about first ice. The crunch of ice creepers underfoot. The frosty breath hangs in the air. The quiet cutting of fresh holes as first light brings the ice above and below ...

In this episode of KSL Outdoors, we're ice fishing from a boat. Winter fishing at Starvation Reservoir is hot, even without ice! Despite a warm start to winter, we grabbed our ice fishing gear and hit ...

Ice fishing isn’t something I do too much of, but over the past couple of years, I have caught the bug. Two years in a row, I’ve headed up to Devils Lake to fish with McQuoid Outdoors. I wanted to ...

Why not make the opening day of walleye season on Friday, May 1, 2026, a three-day weekend? Because you won’t get another ...

Finishing a limit of walleyes just as the sun sets is good. A treble hook buried in your thumb five miles from the truck? Not so much. I throttled my snowmobile down a packed, sometimes hilly trail.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Lake Erie Walleye Trail is expanding into the winter season, taking advantage of the thick ice right now on Western Lake Erie for its inaugural LEWT Bay’s Edge Ice Shootout on ...

When talking about early ice walleye fishing, the term “early ice” is a relative one. This winter ice conditions went from almost non-existent to 9-10 inches in short order. For some, early ice means ...

BRAINERD — Thomas Johnson of Brainerd is this year’s winner of the Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza. The sun was shining and the temperature was well above zero for the 36th annual ice ...