People fish on the frozen Gull Lake during the 2023 Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza, Minnesota.
People fish on the frozen Gull Lake in Minnesota.
  • 122 anglers were stranded on an ice floe that broke off from the shoreline of a Minnesota lake.
  • Bystanders attempted a rescue by canoe, but four individuals fell into the open water.
  • Emergency responders using boats and hovercraft successfully evacuated all the stranded fishermen.

One hundred and twenty-two anglers were rescued from an ice floe on the Upper Red Lake in Minnesota on Friday evening, the Beltrami County Sheriff's Office wrote in a press release on social media.