Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - December 2018

Watch the Americana Outdoors episode on ice fishing here.

I’ve always said Wade didn’t wade fish, and Wade didn’t ice fish much. But Wade does wade fish, and Wade now ice fishes! So this is a pretty epic adventure for me in all honesty. I traveled up to Minnesota with my good friend Steve Pinnaz, we’re getting ready to knock this snow off our our boots, take our Ya- maha Viking out, and go out to drill a few holes. But the main thing that’s got me the most excited about this is an opportunity to play more with Garmin’s PanOptix. I first fell in love with PanOptix when it came out and I had a demo model and I’m fishing up on a boat ramp and I make a cast and I see everything happening live and I didn’t know anything about ice fishing at that time but I thought people looking through the hole in those ice, this is gonna be a revolutionary game changer for those just like it is everybody else. But I haven’t had a chance to get up and actually experience it. So we’re ready to go out on this body of water and I understand we’re gonna be targeting crappie and perch and maybe even catch a pike or two. I don’t know really a whole lot about ice fishing but, what I do know is I’m gonna get out and have a brand new experience while also learning a little bit more about all this live action fishing you can do with Panoptix. We’re on about a 250, maybe 270, acre lake that’s sort of a bog stained, not a real deep lake, it’s sort of a classic, older, eutrophic lake where it goes gradually into a main lake basin, softer bottoms, darker water. But these are the waters that are great pan fish, bass, and big pike waters. And today we’re lookin for, blue gills and pan fish. ICE FISHING WITH GARMIN PANOPTIX BY WADE MIDDLETON