Never been ice fishing. A little cabin on the ice and some smoke, thats sounds like a sweet time. Every year I buy a license and use it one or two times don't catch shit and usually just end up wasting $40 on said license. This year I went ahead and got some Tilapia and put them in my fish tank. Then when the weather warms I'm gonna put them in my pond and wait for them to get all big then I'll do some successful fishing.