My true fishing is done in the warmer months but when I do ice fish I tend to stick close to home panfishing but on the nicer days I may venture out on the road to find and explore new ice.
This year my goal is to find ice with walleye/pike under it.
I would love to go up north and icefish but the funds just dont allow it 
and I am not sure if I would come back if I did 
Great question!
I myself spend most of the winter season working on Upper Red Lake plowing roads, running rentals and guiding. Although when it comes time for those trips off the big red pond I want to fish for anything but walleye or pike. I want to change it up a little and learn new tricks and tactics such as bluegill fishing. I bet I can count on both hands the number of decent bluegills I have ever caught through the ice, I could use some practice. I want to fish deep water for lakers, find schools of whitefish or anything new. More often then not I find myself looking to Canada for these opportunities as I can pack in lakers, panfish and who knows what else within a few miles of camp.
When I do make these trips I like to hit them ultra mobile. I want to stay in the cabin or sleeper house and run out with sleds to points unknown, make some mistakes and go to some of the wrong places making it all that sweeter when you do hit them. What I do not want to do is stack into a bombardier and get dropped of at stations then picked up at 5 pm on the button and delivered to the door safe and sound. I want to get lost in the dark and give my buddies heck for not reading the map right, see who can find the slush with the sled and just how well this and that new gadget works.
My winter fishing is spent on the river in the boat. THat is as long as the river is open. Ice fishing is mostly with in a hours drive of home hear just north of the Twin Cities. This is chasing crappies and a few sunfish.
Pool 4,I hate drilling holes.
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