{"id":8437,"date":"2019-03-31T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2019-03-31T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T17:09:53","slug":"ice-is-going-fast-but-bluegills-still-biting-on-soft-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/ice-is-going-fast-but-bluegills-still-biting-on-soft-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasting ice on Lake Superior made for memorable fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lasting ice on Lake Superior made for memorable fishing Longer freeze let anglers enjoy a &#8220;unique flash fishery.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They came to the North Shore from all over the state, venturing onto frozen Lake Superior with fishing lines that dropped as deep as 250 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Using lures as heavy as hockey pucks to withstand underwater currents, they left with wild-caught lake trout and memories of an extraordinary Minnesota angling experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost every time we went out there we caught a laker or two,\u2019\u2019 said Carson Spohn, 30, of Duluth. \u201cThere\u2019s only so much staring down an ice hole that you can do, but this was definitely a good year up here.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Fisheries Chief Brad Parsons called the long, largely uninterrupted ice season from Duluth to Two Harbors a \u201cunique flash fishery.\u2019\u2019 It opened in early January and lingered into the fourth week of March, when Coast Guard cutters came along to break the ice and open shipping channels.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lasting-ice-on-lake-superior-made-for-memorable-fishing\/507890891\/\">Lasting ice on Lake Superior made for memorable fishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lasting ice on Lake Superior made for memorable fishing Longer freeze let anglers enjoy a &#8220;unique flash fishery.&#8221; They came to the North Shore from all over the state, venturing onto frozen Lake Superior with fishing lines that dropped as deep as 250 feet. Using lures as heavy as hockey pucks to withstand underwater currents, [&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":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-destinations","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437","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=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8443,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}