I was invited to ice fish on Half Moon Lake, just South of Wausau Wisconsin. It was part of a Winter Wonderland Press Tour I had the pleasure of participating on. Half Moon Lake is essentially a flowage of the Wisconsin River. I'm not quite sure how deep it gets, maybe 15 feet, but we fished in about 6 to 8 feet of water with tip-ups and tip-downs. I've used tip-ups before, but tip-downs are new to me. I'll tell you more about that later.
Here I am, I'm on this press tour, with nothing but women. The guides were men, but the press people were all women, how cool is that. These were not ordinary women though, they were very capable fisher-women. Many baited there own hooks, and they all pulled up their
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