Plan your day on the ice, pick your gear, and try to out-fish the field in Ice Fishing Derby 2, a 3D ice fishing game that mixes realistic tactics with fast, gamified fishing. Manage your money, equipment, and body heat across multi-day derbies or relax in free fishing mode and explore frozen lakes at your own pace.
Three ways to hit the ice:
• Free Fishing – Keep your equipment from trip to trip, pick a lake, and fish without a weigh-in timer. Catch fish to earn gems and unlock better free-fishing gear over time.
• Open Derbies – Everyone starts each 5-day event with limited shop credit and basic gear. Choose what to buy, find productive spots, and try to build up to trophy-class fish before the derby ends.
• Pro Derbies – Unlock Pro and head to more lakes and fish for more species of fish. Start with more credit, access higher-end equipment, and drive a snowmobile to manually explore the lake and choose your own spots.
Plan, adapt, and stay warm
Before each derby day you’ll start in Kate’s bait shop with a small budget and a wall of tempting gear. Decide what matters most today: a stronger rod, a bigger auger, electronics, or extra bait and cocoa for the cold. Some items go on sale, so the “right” choice can change from day to day.
Out on the ice you can:
• Drill holes and set up your shanty to cut the wind
• Jig your bait or lures to attract fish without spooking them
• Use sonar or an underwater camera (when you can afford them) to read the water and find the best depth and species
• Move to new spots when the bite slows, trading precious time for a chance at better fish
You’ll get warnings as your character cools down, and you can drink cocoa, use heaters, or move around to warm up. Ignore the cold for too long and your day – or your derby – can end in a darkly comic way.
Lifelike fish and 3D lakes
Fish behave differently by species, size, and depth. Perch and walleye hug the bottom, crappie and trout suspend higher, and predators like pike or muskies may cruise through looking for a meal. Stronger rods and larger holes are required for bigger fish, and careful control of line tension makes the fight feel more like the real thing.
• 3D lakes with varied shorelines and structure
• Dynamic weather with falling snow and colder, windier days as derbies progress
• Multiple lakes and species including panfish, perch, walleye, pike, bass, trout and more on different waters
• NPC anglers and on-ice events – Other anglers may walk up with trade offers, new spots, and other surprises that can help or hurt your plans
Fair competition & progression
Derbies are designed so everyone earns their gear for that event. You start with shop credit, not a lifetime collection of items, so experienced players don’t bring years of upgrades into a new derby. The challenge is how quickly you can turn early-day catches into better equipment and, eventually, the biggest and most valuable fish.
• Compete against results from other players under the same lake and weather conditions
• Gem payouts for each fish in Free Fishing and for Derby results
• Track your performance across multiple derbies and lakes
Free to play with optional upgrades
Ice Fishing Derby 2 is free to download and play.
• Lake Pass unlocks all 22 lakes for free fishing and free exploration on foot
• Derby Pro unlocks everything in the Lake Pass, plus Pro Derbies, plus snowmobile exploration for Pro Derbies and Free Fishing
• Gems can be earned by playing or purchased, and are used to unlock lasting free-fishing equipment
Whether you want a thoughtful fishing sim with real decisions or a quick session trying to squeeze one more trophy walleye in before the clock hits zero, Ice Fishing Derby 2 brings the feel of tournament ice fishing to your phone or tablet.
Ice fishing derby two is an absolute masterpiece. I recently purchased the free fishing lake pack, and I can confirm it is worth it. I thought the first game was cool, but this game is 10x better. I love the verity of species, lakes, and equipment. I am also a huge fan of the random funny dialogue while fishing. I hope to see more great games in the future. Something I would like to be added is a feature to toggle on/off fish finders and cameras in free fishing mode. Maybe you can, but I have not figured it out yet. I would also like it if you could switch rods while fishing. Right now you can only have 1 rod, and you can’t switch. Besides that, this is an excellent game and I HIGHLY recommend it.
The perfect ice fishing game
Absolutely the perfect game
Coming into this game my hopes were high after playing the original and I was not disappointed. Being a seasoned fishermen myself this game is very similar to the real fishing experience I really appreciate that the creators made a free fishing mode to enjoy instead of it being the first game where you were limited to just the derbies overall I love the game as a whole and don’t have a single bit of criticism towards it.
Developer Response
Wow - so glad to hear that! I've tried to keep and build on all the things that people enjoyed about the original, and add some new play modes like the free fishing option for when you don't feel like competing. I really appreciate your review!
Great gane
bowhunter7918
Love the new game been playin the first for forever and thisis much better, some things i would like to see is if you could somehow add tipups i think that would be super cool, and also mabey a few more lakes open for free instead of having to buy any cause im an all free to play player and dont like when games make you pay for a lot, and idk if its just me but on the big owl lake i havent even seen any carp but i might just be unlucky 😅
Developer Response
Thanks for the review and feedback! Tip-ups are in the works for sure! You won't meet the carp that often in Big Owl Lake, mostly because they tend to hang out a bit deeper than the automatically chosen fishing spots you get in Open Derbies.As for making more of the game free, I'll be really frank: I'm a solo indie developer who makes a living from my games. I'm already giving away more for free in this game than everything that cost real money in the original game. The only way I could make more content free in this one would be to fill the game with ads. Lots of games do that, but in my opinion that really reuins the experience, and I'm not willing to do that. So I'll always try to make sure there's fun fishing people can do even if they can't afford any purchases, but also have some parts of the game there for those who can afford to spend a few bucks to help support my work.
Played the first one a lot love this one
Yeahbuddy98:)
Played the first one all the time when I was out ice fishing when I was hunting whenever I was sitting for long periods always wished you could control where you moved to what depth you fished and change lakes this has brought all that and more really a great game highly recommend buying the lakes pro pack as well
Developer Response
Thanks so much! It took some time to figure out how to give people the really casual experience people enjoyed in the original, but also offer a lot more control for those who want it. It seems like the option of open derbies and pro derbies was a good choice. I really appreciate the feedback!
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Seller
Paul Halter
Size
193 MB
Category
Sports
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
