Open water fishing its a lot different than ice fishing. You can fish the whole lake instead of just a 8 inch hole. There are many different ways to fish a lake. You can troll and pull plugs behind a boat if you want to cover a lot of ground. You can cast off a dock or of a point. My favorite if throwing jigs into a stream of moving water. Especially in the spring because most of the ice isn’t off the lakes yet so fish go to the open spots where the water is moving.
