For those who don’t quite get it, the first question about ice fishing might be: Why? What brings a person to sit out on a frozen lake in front of a hole cut in the ice, plumbing the depths for a fish? But every year the faithful, and presumably a good number of new congregants, can be seen scattered around Wisconsin’s many lakes, seated patiently on overturned 5-gallon buckets or ducking into sheltering tents and shacks to try to hook some dinner.
According to Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources, there are about 15,000 lakes in Wisconsin (though named lakes are closer to 6,000). The count doesn’t matter to anglers; if it has fish in it, they will come.
