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- Angler Seth Trobec was ice fishing with his friend Cody Mjolsness in Minnesota when all hell broke loose in ain instant
- Cody Mjolsness took off on a snowmobile to pick up another friend but failed to detach a towline connected to the ice shack and started dragging the shanty + fisherman across the lake
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This video below of a guy ice fishing in Minnesota one second and then getting dragged across a frozen lake at high speeds inside his ice shack the next second is wild. It truly deserves that ‘you’re probably wondering how I got here’ meme treatment because it all happens so quickly. This is a proper fishing story that managed to get filmed by a GoPro so the world can’t deny it happened.
According to details shared with Pete Thomas at USA Today’s For The Win, Seth Trobec was ice fishing with Cody Mjolsness at Canisteo Mine Pit Lake in Coleraine, Minnesota in the clip below. Trobec is the one we see getting dragged inside the ice shack (the ice fishing structure providing protection from the elements) at high speeds after Cody Mjolsness fired up the snowmobile to go retrieve another friend.
Where things went seriously wrong is Cody Mjolsness failed to detach a towline that connected the ice shack to the snowmobile. So when Cody Mjolsness took off on the snowmobile he started dragging Seth Trobec and the ice shanty with him.
There’s quite a bit of specialized and expensive equipment involved in ice fishing. And that equipment is part of the reason that Seth Trobec bailed from the shanty instead of holding on for the ride. After a brief ride, he bails out and then screams for his friend in an attempt to get his attention. All of this was caught on the GoPro camera. Check it out…
Snowmobile Drags Guy And Ice Shack Across Frozen Lake While Ice Fishing
My reaction would’ve been to bail instead of riding it out. There’s no telling what could’ve happened if the guy driving abruptly slammed on the brakes once he finally realized the towrope was attached. But Trobec told FTW Outdoors that bailing was a pretty calculated decision:
“I decided to bail when I realized my buddy wasn’t slowing down. My thought was, we had some expensive gear on the ice, and I was afraid something maybe fell on the heater or into a fishing hole, and wanted to get back and make sure all was OK. The scream was a failed attempt to get his attention.”
Getting dragged is never a good thing. Not when you’re getting dragged by people online, not when you’re getting dragged across a frozen lake by a buddy driving a snowmobile, and not even in wakeboarding or waterskiing when you’re actually getting ‘pulled’ and not dragged at all. Getting dragged = bad.
If you’re ever getting dragged, you should bail. This is sound advice, I think. I reserve the chance to change my mind about it later.