I live 3 hours east of Wichita, it depends on the winter. Most winters I wouldn't recomend going on any lakes. But some winters you can go on some smalller shallow lakes(75 to 100 acres) or ponds. I guess I'm a sqeerdy cat. You may have enough knowledge to know what is safe and what it not.

That's useing your old noggin Donald. But if you use Donald's advice follow the instructions to a T!!! DO NOT!!! pour in a circle.

make sure you take you some minner scent

Eagle Nest, NM for yellow perch and trout.

First Ice Fishing thread I've seen on TFF.

Try this:
1. Take your boat out on one of our lakes during the winter.
2. Tie up to a tree.
3. Take an inner tube and tie off to the trolling motor.
4. Drop your line through the inner tube.
5. Fire the grill up in the boat and wait for something to bite.

This should simulate the ice fishing experience pretty well and allow you to fish instead of driving North.

Loved me some ice fishing when I lived in Indiana...Those long winters you had to find things to do and ice fishing was one of them. My Dad and Uncle used to tie a rope to me to check sketchy ice...if I didnt fall in, they eased out. Crazy of farts, coulda killed me

Me at 10 or 11 ice fishing Buck Lake in Angola, Indiana !! Miss that place.

Yeah, I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around this desire of yours. You're in Texas now...enjoy the year-round boat flotation ability.

If you must scratch the itch I'd think you'd have to go at least to KS. I spent my freshman year of college up there. The pond on campus froze over enough where we could play hockey on it...pretty cool experience for Texas boy.

Lived in Kansas for 9 years. Hard water sucks.

If you like ice fishing, move back to wherever you came from

pretty simple

Some of the get ups i've seen in Minnesota for ice fishing are nicer than the boats we drive around here all summer. Full enclosed trailer with hydraulic lifts to pick the tires up off the ice, holes in the floor to pull up and fish out of, electric ice auger for easy drilling and no exhaust in your hut, satelite TV to watch football, cooktop and fridge to fry up some fish and keep the beverages cold. Just fire up your snowmobile and drag it out on the ice, doesn't matter if its -20 out.

Or just sit on a bucket and freeze your butt off beside a hand drilled hole, either way

i was with you all the way to this point. something about hauling a fridge out onto a sheet of ice seems a bit unnecessary, lol.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=%23&ved=0ahUKEwi53P2-tLrWAhVr2oMKHZcUDxQQwqsBCHEwCQ&usg=AFQjCNF1sHlk2z9QIx28jtvfnGP_UlkifA
The ice looks like a peg board with all those holes drilled in it. Diehart fisherman right there.

Well I guess I don't know how to post. Anyway, it is a youtube video of drone footage of the largest fishing tournament. It's Jaycees in Brainerd, MN. Maybe someone smarter than me(wouldn't take much) could post it on here.

I agreed with you at first, but thought about it. It gets so $\%& cold up there, if you didn't keep your beer in the fridge it would freeze. Crazy, having to keep your beer in a fridge so it doesn't freeze.