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While Part 1 is all about the preparation for sturgeon season, Part 2 follows Janis, Jake, and his whole crew as they attempt to achieve the improbable, spear a lake sturgeon by hand through a hole in the ice.

Fur Hat Ice Tour

Spearing Dinosaurs Part 2

Janis hops the state line over to Wisconsin and travels to Lake Winnebago for the annual lake sturgeon spearing season. Lake sturgeon are incredible fish, and the communities around lake Winnebago have long revered and relied on these fish.

Spearing Dinosaurs Part 1

Janis continues the Minnesota segment of the tour on Lake Mille Lacs; he's guided by renowned angler and wildlife biologist Mandy Uhrich.

Favorite Fish

Kicking off the tour part of the Fur Hat Ice Tour, Janis Putelis travels to Whitefish Lake, Minnesota and meets up with local wild foods expert Mark Norquist who runs the Modern Carnivore website.

Stab Em' and Eat Em'

To pivot off of the ease and accessibility we featured in Episode 1, Episode 2 goes the opposite direction and shows Cal and Miles embarking on a deep backcountry winter expedition requiring tracked Can-Ams and thousands of pounds of gear.

Backcountry Burbot

Ice fishing can be intimidating and is often misunderstood. Even some hardcore anglers eschew ice fishing as either boring, miserable, or too gear intensive to be worth their while.

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