I love ice fishing in trees - pretty easy vertical presentation, but obviously open water casting can become an issue. I'd cut everything possible off at ice line and drag them out. 40 acres of cover in a 60 acre BOW could make fish location tough...I can help with suggestions on congregating fish...feeders and a few brush piles shallow and deep around the feeders is one great way to achieve this.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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