The big thing that's taken off the last kind of five or six years in ice fishing is what people call wheelhouses. These are basically a sort of caravan that you pull out onto the ice and it fixes into the ice. The fanciest ones, they might have generators, satellite TVs, stoves,. People have even got showers fitted in them. Do you think this ice fishing bloom is more than just a fad? It's going to keep going for a while, but I think one of the risks is good warming.
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