Police are warning anglers to get their ice houses off the lakes as soon as possible after another shelter broke through the ice, this time on Clear Lake in Forest Lake.
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The East Otter Tail Focus says people in the Detroit Lakes area are scrambling to get their fish houses off the lakes. The newspaper talks to anglers, bait shop owners and others who are hearing tons of horror stories about fish houses cracking through the ice.
Warm weather and strong gusts of wind are opening up lakes far earlier than usual, and anglers and resort owners are eager to get a jump on the season.
The agency is urging anglers to learn and remember the rules after reporting a rash of fishing violations.
The county sheriff is closing Big Lake and Lake Mitchell to cars, trucks and SUVs because of the unpredictable ice. The sheriff says an SUV carrying three people broke through the ice on Big Lake on Sunday, Kare 11 reports.
The deadline for the southern two-thirds of Minnesota is March 5. Although, DNR officers are worried some of the ice may not last two more weeks because of the warm winter weather.
Many northern Minnesota lakes that are usually clogged with ice until May started April ice-free in this crazy weather year. Gunflint Lake broke its record for earliest ice-out by a whopping 17 days. Crane, Winnibigoshish, and Upper Red Lake are among the others that broke records.
A semitrailer traveling through Waseca became the second in less than a week to veer off a highway and sink through the ice. KARE 11 says emergency workers were able to tow the truck out of Clear Lake, just off Hwy. 14. The State Patrol says the truck jack-knifed because of icy roads and high winds.
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