In my home state of Wisconsin, the Beaver Dam tip-up has a cult-like following. But you can’t go wrong with the HT Enterprises Polar tip-up. For average-sized northern pike, a lively 5- or 6 ...

Provided Tate Erickson holds his first pike northern pike, caught on the Flambeau River. Provided That was a central tenet of the Tres Holes Ice Fishing School in northern Wisconsin around the new ...