World wonders: thousands of people ice fishing together

In the winter of 1991, in Minnesota, where the temperature is less than a dozen degrees below freezing, a group of brothers were bored after dinner and came up with a good idea to save the local winter dismal tourism: let's held an ice fishing Grand Prix! To know that even fishing is a warm day could take a lot of times, how can anyone be willing to sit fishing for hours on ice-cold, extremely cold lakes? In fact, some people really love to do it.

This year marks the 27th Ice Fishing Grand Prix at Brainerd, a town on Lake Gallagher, Minnesota, where nearly 10,000 people have come to this frozen 20-inch-thick lake and dug more than 20,000 small holes to fish. You can see thousands of people with the fishing hooks box on the lake. Up to now, the volunteer work hours have totaled 20,000 hours.

The event organizer told reporters:"I think our game should be regarded as the eighth wonder of the world! I can not explain why the competition attracted so many people involved, but if you have not seen this scenes(thousands of people fishing on the ice together), you should definitely come and see! Feel the magic of this experience!”

The United States is not the only country that will fish on ice. Far East of Russia, where the first thing that comes to mind is the long winter and extremely cold weather. However, in this harsh environment, locals have a special way of entertainment, that is, ice fishing.

The Far East has the winter ice period of up to 4 to 5 months. Ice fishing has, therefore, become one of the popular winter entertainment options in the area. Cloudless and windless is a must for ice fishing, and it is especially important that you go out as soon as possible to take the best position. Site selection, drilling holes, down the carbon fishing rods, each step requires superb technology and rich experience. And after that, the test is the patience of ice-fishing.

According to ice-fishing enthusiasts, January is the best month for ice fishing because the ice thickness at this time is more than half a meter thick, able to withstand the weight of cars and the lack of oxygen and food for in this season, make it the easiest to hook.

In fact, these ice fishing enthusiasts are not concerned about how many fish they catch, in their view, close to nature and relax is the most important. It can be said that together fishing on the ice lake, enjoy and share the joy of life has become a lifestyle for them.