More ice fishing options are becoming available as ponds and lakes ice over.

Wreck fishing, white perch, and freshwater fish are keeping anglers in the game during this traditionally slow part of the fishing season.

Fishable ice is becoming abundant out west and in higher elevations while from Plymouth through the Cape, anglers have been having their way with all sorts of trout.

Cod fishing at Block Island is up and down. It might be worth traveling to Connecticut for holdover stripers or stocked trout.

Despite the slow reports, some of the better options are holdover striped bass at the Housatonic River, cod at Block Island, and trout fishing at the Farmington.

  This time of year, it’s helpful to keep expectations in line with the calendar.

Steelhead continue to push upstream while anglers finding fishable ice are reporting a lot of success with both panfish and trout.

Fishable ice is slow to take-hold on many water bodies so far this season and fishing pressure on the few lakes and bays that have safe ice is heavy.

Above: Katie Curran used a float-and-fly rig to catch this small pond pickerel on Sunday.

Blackfishing, despite its inconsistency, is still the best saltwater game in town while freshwater anglers are finding crappie and largemouth on the feed.