This Weeks Show

Episode 50

Last Cast Before Ice-Up

Show Date: December 13, 2025

Location: Chequamegon Bay, Ashland, Wisconsin

Guide: Josh Teigen [715-813-0575  | joshteigen.com ]

Accommodations: River Rock Inn & Bait Shop [715-682-3232 | riverrockinn.net]

We managed to slip out onto Chequamegon Bay just before everything locked up with ice, and what we found was a surprisingly hot multi-species bite. With our special guest Acorn aboard, we expected to spend most of the day catching bass — but the fish had other plans.

Instead, the pike were absolutely fired up, and we even picked up a few bonus walleyes along the way. It turned into one of those late-season trips where every stop held a new surprise.

Hard to believe that the very water we were fishing is now capped in ice. Now all that’s left is to wait for safe thickness so we can get back out and start the ice-fishing season!