Understanding What Your Fish Finder is Actually Showing You and Other Top Stories from Fishing on SI

How Much of the Bottom Does My Fish Finder See While Ice Fishing?; Why Ciscoes are My Favorite Fish to Pull Through the Ice; and Why the Best Ice Fishing Is Where Other Anglers Won’t Go.

In central Maine, early ice makes smelt fishing nice

About a half-dozen smelt camps report fishing and business has been good so far this season after multiple rough years.