{"id":8172,"date":"2019-02-17T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T01:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2019-02-17T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T01:09:39","slug":"the-lazy-novices-guide-to-ice-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/the-lazy-novices-guide-to-ice-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lazy Novice\u2019s Guide to Ice Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ross Boissoneau | Feb. 16, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When\u2019s the best time to fish? Some will say a calm day. Some will suggest early morning; others, evening.<\/p>\n<p>But many will tell you one of the North\u2019s sweetest secrets: The best time to wet a line is in the dead of winter. No waves, no boats, and little to no noise to scare the fish away. Ice fishing makes all those problems irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>True, it requires different equipment. You\u2019re not going to stand on the end of the dock clad in shorts and T-shirt and cast 20 or 30 feet into the open waters. But the investment is typically less than what you\u2019d spend in the summer \u2014 certainly less than a boat, motor, and trailer would run. And much less hassle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need much. You can go sit on a pickle bucket if it\u2019s not too cold,\u201d said Ken Fosmore of Glen Arbor. Fosmore has been fishing the Glen Lakes for most of his life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexpress.com\/news\/feature\/the-lazy-novices-guide-to-ice-fishing\/\">The Lazy Novice\u2019s Guide to Ice Fishing <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ross Boissoneau | Feb. 16, 2019 When\u2019s the best time to fish? Some will say a calm day. Some will suggest early morning; others, evening. But many will tell you one of the North\u2019s sweetest secrets: The best time to wet a line is in the dead of winter. No waves, no boats, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"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-8172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","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\/8172","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=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}