Some 20 years ago, international competitive ice fishing revealed tungsten jigs to North American anglers, when European teams would weigh in heavy bags of fish caught on the tiny, gold colored jigs.

I first fished tungsten jigs a couple of winters back on Devils Lake while on a good perch bite with John Adams of Big John's Guide Service, and I was impressed with how "heavy" the jigs fished ...

It was the crappie hole off Hay Island, where the fish tended to be deeper, suspended off the bottom maybe 30 feet under the ice in 60 feet of water. The problem was getting the jig down to the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As I paid the cashier, I thought I’d lost my marbles. My new tungsten fishing jigs cost about triple ...

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