Posted on 11/29/2022 11:43:36 PM PST by blueplum
About 100 people fishing on a frozen lake in Minnesota were rescued after a large chunk of the ice broke off, leaving them stranded.
Emergency dispatchers received a 911 call just after 11:30 a.m. Monday from people who were fishing on Upper Red Lake in northern Beltrami County...
...Due to the urgent nature of getting people off the ice and the likelihood that several groups were unaware of the separation, the first responders sent out a wireless emergency alert...
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Written by ABC. Won’t read it because I can’t believe it
You know, Joe once had to fight off IcePop......
Sounds like a very dangerous situation, one this group didn’t do much planning for. Lucky that enough people were idlly gazing at how the piece of ice they stood on seemed to have ‘grown’ a little stream near the edge. That ‘stream’ kept getting wider and wider, soon to be over 30 yards in distance.
Seems it happens every year, but this is a record number “caught”.
Require that every fisherman carry a paddle...
Upper Red Lake is huge. There are entire counties in the lower 48 which are smaller.
So those snowmobile contests running across open water isn’t just for fun, but is training!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCu6evrKqsI
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men
Old Guy: An intervention? Who’s intervening?
JERRY: There’s a friend of ours on drugs and we’re going to confront him.
OLD GUY: Sure, we used to do that when one of our polar bears stopped
coming. We would go to his house and say, “What you don’t want to be a
polar bear anymore? It’s too cold for you?”
Kramer can’t get his core temperature back!
Ice fishing requires caution but you always have fishermen who push the limits of safety by going out on ice that's much too thin.
As a side note, if a rescue is performed, only the fishermen are picked up, their equipment is left behind. And if it involves shantys or snowmobiles, well, they're screwed. Shanty's require registration numbers so if they're not removed by the end of the season and end up in the lake, the owners receive a hefty fine by the DNR.
Globull warming.
Shouldn’t that be “fisherpersons”?
I remember ice fishing on some salt water river inlets up in Maine. You’d be fishing in your smelt house at high tide and be 30 or 40 yards down river at low tide.
In Wisconsin there is a group of hundreds of people who ice fish in the Bay of Green Bay just off shore from Dyckesville. They push the envelope every year. It’s a tradition up here in n the Nortwoods.
In what I can only imagine is an homage to PC, I’ve often seen the word “fisher(s)” employed.
Good thing they weren’t bumped by the iceberg with the polar bear on it.
There are only two seasons in Northern Minnesota - Winter, and ‘Bad Ice”. Occasionally the latter can get to you.
There are actually two Red Lakes, Upper and Lower. They are joined by a fairly wide inlet. Together, they make up the largest inland lake totally contained in a single state. Both are quite shallow, leading to the relatively early freeze-up.
The Lower lies within the Red Lake Indian Reservation, as does much of the Upper. Fishing for non-tribe members is only allowed on the Upper, which I have done many times - mostly in the winter. We had a simple rule for driving on the ice: Only do it when there are lots of other tracks ahead of you.
My nickname when I lived there was “Jackpine Savage”, which I proudly proclaimed. Some consider it to be a derogatory name for the natives from there. I wore it with pride. Unfortunately, that name was taken when I joined FR, so I had to modify it a bit.
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