Going on in Minnesota this Winter

[T.P.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9lsZ96ET5k

Last Winter in MN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQWXJSbti0
 
In Maine last Spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCmEkyO9UjI

  T.P.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Pretty cool  I've never seen that done before.

[Mn. Norseman]

put a couple holes by the edge and you could troll.

[Jess from VA]

In my youth on an island in Michigan, I was a fair skater.

Today however, I would rather the ice not be moving while I attempted to stay upright on it.

In elementary, we used to pole around on small icebergs between the docks in winter.  It was only chest deep, but if when you went in it was an amazing shock to the system.

Parents would look out and just be happy the kids found something to do.   

[cookiedough]

pretty neat, yet pretty stupid as well.  What will happen when a young kid or other small person or animal goes walking across that 12 inch or bigger opening and falls in and drowns?  I see they have most of it roped off for warnings and such, but that will not prevent kids from being kids.   Another good way to get an ATV or snowmobile if going slow enough stuck in the ice as well.

Here in WI you cannot fish an ice fishing hole bigger than 12 inches.  I threw that out the door when I was fishing the Madison lakes as a youngster growing up being a kid (stupid) and fished in about 10 feet of water in a bay that had an open spring sitting on about 10 inches of ice right next to open water, catching panfish right after the other being pretty neat watching the bluegills swimming in circles in open water (about a 10 foot wide opening of open water).  Never thought how dangerous that could have been as a young teen.

I do not know MN ice fishing regs though, guessing WI laws are stricter?