DCHP-1 Online
ice fishing 
the practice of fishing through holes in the ice, either for sport or commercially.
See also: ice-angling
- 1752 [They sometimes make large openings in the ice, where they angle with a hook and line, and catch salmon. . . .]
- 1962 . . . ice fishing has been a mile slow, but [is] expected to pick up any old time.
- 1965 Ice fishing . . . now calls hundreds of thousands of persons . . . to lakes and rivers across Canada.
- 1752 [They sometimes make large openings in the ice, where they angle with a hook and line, and catch salmon. . . .]