Troy Ray, of Constantia, was ice fishing on Oneida Lake last weekend when he pulled a plump pickerel through the ice that just might’ve beat a state record. Ray’s digital scale (powered by three-year ...

We're ice fishing here on Silver Lake in New York State, geared up with the Stingnose jigging spoons and targeting perch.

One frigid day in the winter of 1965, Don Therre, 11, trudged alone across the frozen surface of Oneida Lake, dragging behind him a heavy steel bar that ice anglers call a spud. Toes growing numb ...