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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Get Your Line In & Pray | 2025 | United States | Jackson Adams | Every January, 10,000 people descend on Brainerd, Minnesota to compete in the world’s largest charitable ice fishing competition.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
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.
—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
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
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.
—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
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“Ice fishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20fishing. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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