Four year old Parker Wallin, Cottagewood, uses a newly learned jigging technique through a hole dug on Lake Auburn in the Lowry Nature Center in Carver Park Reserve Saturday, Feb. 18, in Victoria. Parker and his Grampa Don Peterson, left, attended 'Take a Kid Ice Fishing' to teach Parker proper ice fishing techniques and how to make his own jigging pole.
Grampa Don Peterson shows his four-year-old grandson Parker a jigging technique through a hole dug on Lake Auburn in the Lowry Nature Center in Carver Park Reserve Saturday, Feb. 18, in Victoria. Young Parker and his Grampa, left, attended 'Take a Kid Ice Fishing' to help teach Parker proper ice fishing techniques and how to make his own jigging pole.
2012 and the Winter-that-wasn't meant dangerous lake ice conditions from northern to southern Minnesota. This sign, and others like it on Wayzata Bay warned Chilly Open participants to keep to the relative safety of thicker ice farther from shore during the city of Wayzata's annual, wildly popular party.