8 hours (approx.)
Daily Tour
10 people
English
Ice fishing is a great way to experience the winter months of the northern latitudes. As it gets you outside to experience the beauty of nature in a heated tent. The Nacey Lake State Recreation area is very renowned for its amazing access to some backcountry areas of Alaska. You would expect to catch northern pike and lake trout on this trip. Our full-day ice fishing trip takes you out by snowshoe through the winter wonderland of the Nancy Lake area to a selected frozen lake. Once out on the lake, we will prepare the area and fishing tent so we can fish in a heated environment. Your guide will point out wildlife, and land formations as you snowshoe and will clean any fish you catch. An Alaska State Fishing license is required and not included in this price. Activity Details First Hour- Snowshoe an hour into our desired fishing location Second Hour set up the ice fishing tend and drill the holes Hours three-seven Ice Fish and eat lunch Last hour pack up and snowshoe back out.
After meeting at where Maud Road in Palmer Alaska dead ends. We will hike out onto the lake by snow shoes and set up our ice fishing equipment. Once set up we will begin ice fishing and seek to catch fish which include lake trout and northern pike.
A typical day's itinerary looks like this.
First hour and a half we dawn our snow shoes and begin our hike out onto the lake. After arriving at our spot we will set up the equipment which includes clearing snow off the ice, drilling holes in the ice to fish in, setting up the heated tent
Around noon a sack lunch will be provided from North Star Bakery
The last hour and a half of this guided experience will include taking down the tent and hiking back out with any fish that we caught.