{"id":8101,"date":"2019-02-13T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2019-02-13T10:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:30:37","slug":"reel-in-some-late-winter-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/reel-in-some-late-winter-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"Reel in Some Late Winter Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reel in Some Late Winter Pike<\/strong><br \/>\nSam Ubl 02\/11\/2019<\/p>\n<p>Above photo courtesy of WDH Guide Service<\/p>\n<p>Ice fishing for pike and chasing flags all day can be a riot. But lots of action usually means weeding through a lot of smaller fish to eventually pull in a trophy. When the action is hot, your hands get cold. That\u2019s the trade-off. Handling wet braided tip-up line in freezing temperatures, unhooking, observing, releasing, and re-baiting all require a touch of the hands. When it\u2019s bitter cold outside, sometimes the thrill of action can wear off as quick as it showed up.<\/p>\n<p>Targeting bigger fish often means catching less, but the reward can be well worth the wait. Late winter ice fishing is one of the best times of the year to catch trophy pike. Let\u2019s explore the why, when, and where to get in on the action and what to use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/community.legendarywhitetails.com\/blog\/reel-in-some-late-winter-pike\/?fbclid=IwAR0mceTckU_Ymjwp2dDt9GBv-ImT9jIFIG-YXb0doMZlHTQvHWgxJtOXucE\"><strong>Reel in Some Late Winter Pike<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8102 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2026\/03\/51798044_10101958638396601_661317271574020096_n-600x484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reel in Some Late Winter Pike Sam Ubl 02\/11\/2019 Above photo courtesy of WDH Guide Service Ice fishing for pike and chasing flags all day can be a riot. But lots of action usually means weeding through a lot of smaller fish to eventually pull in a trophy. When the action is hot, your hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":8102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing-tips","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8103,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions\/8103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}