LAKE PUCKAWAY — There are lots of reasons to go ice fishing at Lake Puckaway in Wisconsin. For starters, the lake is big enough that you can easily find solitude out on the ice. And there are lots of species to target under your feet. If you're a bass angler, you'll love the largemouth population in the lake. If catfish or walleye are more your thing, you'll find those as well.
But the crown jewel is the northern pike. They grow big here. One summer day in 1952, a lucky fisherman pulled out a 38-pounder. And that toothy brute has held the state record for the past 74 years.
One thing about Lake Puckaway that isn't ideal? The wind. As you'll see in this video, things can get a little crazy when it starts to blow across the ice.
According to the video's description, the wind was whipping around 40 miles per hour when this ice shelter took off. As you can imagine, on a smooth surface like Lake Puckaway, it wouldn't take long for that ice shelter to disappear in the distance. Or the ice shelter could've smashed into another shelter, which would've been quite the shock to the unfortunate inhabitants.
So you've got to salute the two fellows who took off after it. They gave it their all as they sprinted across the ice. And that diving save at the end deserves a perfect score, assuming the "ice shelter chase" is an official sport in the Great Lakes region.
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