Today, the "Largest Ice Fishing Contest in the World" is being held.

[Cabin Fever]

Over $150,000 in prizes. Grand prize is a brand new 4x4 full size pickup. Other prizes include 4x4 ATVs, Ice Castle fish house, many $250 cash prizes, 150 prizes in all. The contest runs for 3 hours on a lake about 20 minutes from where we live. There were sometime like 20,000 ice holes drilled on the lake last night.

 

[montanabill]

We have ice fishing contests in montana as well......the winner gets to buy the first round at the nearby bar.......

 

[Tim Horton]

I suspect ice is thick enough for portable houses, but not maybe permanent ice houses and vehicles here..

Trivia...
A number of years ago they had an big ice fishing contest on Lake Winnebago Wisconsin.. They roped off an area of the lake as a ...parking area.. for all the vehicles on the ice.. Before the day was over a dozen or more vehicles went through the ice where they were a concentrated group..

 

[Peanut]

How is this possible with all the global warming I keep hearing about?

On a serious note... where's Ann Margaret? She there?