By Dennis Foster on 3/11/2009 1:07 PM

As we begin to enter the second half of the hard-water fishing season-and in my mind at least, the better half-we’ve experienced both good and bad. The good part being, we had favorable ice conditions form early on this year, and as is often the case-made for some fine fishing opportunities. Pretty respectable catches were garnered in shoreline related, traditional first ice locations. The bad being, although the region started out with much promise in the form of excellent ice conditions, the opportunities to explore offshore locations, were abruptly cut short by snowfall amounts that made accessing more preferred areas, difficult at best.

That being said, angler activity was obviously greatly reduced and the subsequently limited reports were quite spotty, with few tales of a runaway bite for much of anything. Now that we have all the negative banter out of the way…there is a positive outlook to be gained from all of this. Most importantly, is that the fish have received very little-if any-pressure. They...

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