MORIOKA—Colorful ice-fishing huts in red, yellow and green dot the snow-covered ice on Lake Gandoko here that stretches as far as the eye can see. The lake is located in Morioka’s Yabukawa ...

The Duck Creek to Confederate area has slow fishing overall. There is 16 inches of ice around the Silos and Ponds, 15 inches at Hole in the Wall and Duck Creek, 10 inches at White Earth and 9 ...

Once on the ice, the odd fish resembling an eel slowed movement as the cold set in. My partner would always comment, “That’s a good chowder fish.” Indeed, cusk are great for chowders.