This has been a tough year on ice conditions, so not the best time to pose such a question. There's certainly been less ice fishermen, in general this year and probaly overall too, to some extent, but it's really hard to say? There's less deer hunters in VT the past few years, but for the same reasons there's less coyotes,......because there's less DEER! Not even Vermonters will hang out and hunt here much these days. -Jim