Learn 2 Fish With Us hosted a Volunteer Appreciation Ice Outing on Saturday, February 5th on Partridge Crop.  Learn 2 Fish With Us wanted to thank all the great volunteers we have and get them out fishing.  The day started out very cold and there was a breeze, but that didn’t stop our volunteers from showing up.  We were tip-up fishing so that we could chat with each other between the flags going up.  Some awesome bass were caught with a couple Notherns.  It may have been slow but you would have never known that.  Captain Greg cooked lunch on the ice!!  This was a great event to get our volunteers together and do some fishing of are own!!  Learn 2 Fish With Us could not exist without the help of our volunteers!!

Captain Greg and BJ of Learn 2 Fish With Us shared their passion for ice fishing with the cub scouts of Neenah.  The Ice fishing clinic took place the evening of February 8th at Spring Hill Elementary, which Is located in Neenah, Wisconsin

The evening started out with the scouts learning the skills and equipment needed to begin ice fishing through Captain Greg’s Ice Fishing Basics seminar.  Ice Fishing Basics teaches; safety while ice fishing, different ice fishing combos, electronics, bait, tip ups and tip downs, augers, how to tie a Clinch and Palomar knot, fish identification and so much more.

Thanks to Learn 2 Fish With Us, each youth received a soft sided tackle bag by Shakespeare, fish identification cards and a fishing educational book.  All scouts also went into a door prize drawing for Shakespeare ice fishing combos and Berkely tip ups.  Everything needed to get out ice fishing!!

On Sunday, February 20^th the cub scouts will hit the ice where they will utilize their newly learn skills and use the equipment they received.

Here’s a great video on how to make your own ice fishing jigs for shallow water fishing. Creating your own jigs allows you to customize and by creating a shallow water jig with slow fall can allow for a big time payoff when fishing between one and six feet of water.

This video will explain the equipment and bait we are using to catch bluegills while ice fishing on a near by lake this past week.  After this video you will want to get out on the ice!!

Here is a video from Captain Greg’s trip to the Mississippi River last week to fish for panfish, which included Bluegill, Crappie and Perch.  Captain Greg used his long ice fishing rods from Frabill called the Jiggler with three pound test and a ice jig with a red and white spike.  Greg did start out using plastic but the fish were pretty neutral so he used live bait.  Greg also used tip downs with a small minnows to catch Crappie, Perch, Northern and Largemouth Bass.