ice fishing
noun
: fishing that is done in winter through a hole that is cut in the ice on a lake, pond, etc.
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Adventures by True North Alaska offers snowshoe tours that can include northern lights experiences, kayaking on the Knik River, ice fishing, or winter expeditions at a remote lodge.
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Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
In a couple of hours, families will go ice fishing on a frozen lake surrounded by epic, sky-grazing trees.
—Tyler Hicks, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
In winter and spring, Inuit residents snowmobile hundreds of kilometers over it to go ice fishing and hunt musk ox and seals, local hunter Brandon Langan told me in his living room, a black musk ox hide hanging behind him.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Book a private telescope session at the Yukon Astronomical Society’s Observatory, or try ice fishing beneath the aurora.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
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Brandon Withrow, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
In a couple of hours, families will go ice fishing on a frozen lake surrounded by epic, sky-grazing trees.
—Tyler Hicks, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
In winter and spring, Inuit residents snowmobile hundreds of kilometers over it to go ice fishing and hunt musk ox and seals, local hunter Brandon Langan told me in his living room, a black musk ox hide hanging behind him.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Book a private telescope session at the Yukon Astronomical Society’s Observatory, or try ice fishing beneath the aurora.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Ice fishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20fishing. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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