West Michigan hosts World Ice Fishing Championship

West Michigan hosts World Ice Fishing Championship

CATO TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Some of the best ice fishers in the world are descending upon West Michigan to compete this week. The 2025 XXI World Ice Fishing Championship is happening at Tamarack Lake in Lakeview, north of Greenville, from Tuesday through Sunday. It’s Michigan's first time hosting the event, which attracts ice fishers, called anglers, from all over the world. Anglers hail from Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mo…

Major ice fishing tournament underway north of Grand Rapids

The top fishermen from all over the world are converging on west Michigan this week for the 2025 21st World Ice Fishing Championship. USAngling Freshwater Fishing Director Mike McNett says the competition begins Tuesday on Lake Tamarack in Lakeview, northeast of Grand Rapids. “The anglers are from all over the world,” McNett said. “Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Norway. We’ve got anglers from Kazakhstan, Poland, Mongolia. So they’re from al…