“Sit with your back to the wind,” My dad would say. I don’t have a lot of memories of ice fishing as a kid, but that was one of them. I was sitting on a five-gallon bucket, trying to tolerate the cold ...

A dedicated ice angler can eventually upgrade to a power auger. I started with a hand auger and bought a used power auger in college, before upgrading to a brand new model some years later. Today, you ...

Come deep winter in the north country, the steady, ongoing noise of an outboard engine making its way across the water is replaced by the short, high pitched roar of an ice auger, growling its way ...

GRAND FORKS – I wonder how many ice fishing enthusiasts out there have gas-powered ice augers gathering dust in their garages, sheds or wherever they store their fishing gear. Once a staple in the ...

Finnish fishing tackle giant Rapala VMC Corp. has acquired StrikeMaster Corp. of Big Lake, Minn., a leading supplier of ice augers, in a deal that gives Rapala the proverbial opening in the ice ...