What to do when the bite is slow

  • CaptainFireball
    Posts: 14
    #1732464

    We’re heading up to LOTW in early January. Hopefully the bite will be good and we will be plenty busy hauling in the fish. But if the bite is slow, what are some out-of-the-icehouse activities you would recommend? Something close to the house. Was thinking a hole in one contest with a hockey stick and neon ball. Ideas? We will have a group of nine guys.

    Walleyestudent Andy Cox
    Garrison MN-Mille Lacs
    Posts: 4484
    #1732474

    Not sure where who or where you’re fishing out of, but the igloo bar out on the ice. Should be on every ice anglers bucket list…

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    31lifer
    Posts: 152
    #1732509

    Agreed. The igloo out of Zipple Bay is pretty cool! Captain Fireball the bite is never slow on LOTW!

    CaptainFireball
    Posts: 14
    #1734335

    We will have to hit up the Igloo bar. Looks pretty cool. I need to stop at Zippel Bay State Park anyways.

    dylg16
    Posts: 16
    #1734336

    When I go on ice fishing trips we usually bring 2 hockey pucks and will drill 2 holes not all the way through and have teams of 2 and play a cornhole type game

    catmando
    wis
    Posts: 1811
    #1734343

    This is a opinion… fish harder!

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18621
    #1734348

    Days are short and it’s a long ways up there and expensive. We push through and keep fishing the whole time on the ice on those trips.

    Eelpoutguy
    Farmington, Outing
    Posts: 10426
    #1734354

    Play – Fill the mitten up.
    31lifer is good at that!

    jarrod holbrook
    Posts: 179
    #1734711

    Cribbage. Sometimes the original is still the best!

    crappie55369
    Mound, MN
    Posts: 5757
    #1734713

    cards, movies, drinking, ice skating, football on the ice, snowmobiling. I enjoy seeing all of the stars on the ice. You could bring a telescope and do some star gazing. the bar/resorts around LOTW can be fun if you feel like driving into “town”

    slipperybob
    Lil'Can, MN
    Posts: 1414
    #1734715

    Kite flying?

    Ice mini golf course…You build it, they will come.

    There was that time, snow – volleyball. Nobody knew if it was in our out.

    skfishing16
    Posts: 75
    #1734733

    Use your hole covers to play Frisbee football.

    koldfront kraig
    Coon Rapids mn
    Posts: 1816
    #1735045

    We fish all day. Fish will hit in flurries then nothing for a while then another flurry.

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