Show me a lake with an hourglass figure and a few good walleyes, and I ll show you fish. The key is in the narrows of the lake. Perhaps it s the current, or maybe the bottlenecking effect. Needless to say the narrows are a walleye attractor second to none. Points with a good extension into deep water are a close second.
Bays nearby are also worth plying.
With three distinct target areas to choose from. I like to pick a lake with a narrows, a major point extending out into the main body and adjoining bays sandwiched in between. It doesn t matter what the target species is, a combination of these structural elements is going to attract some fish during ice up. I am not one of those ice fisherman that will sit and sit waiting for a bite, in fact, one might say that I am really aggressive when it comes to ice fishing. Oh, it is true that fish are sluggish in the winter and you often need to tease them into hitting.