3/04/2013

Fishing Is Just Not the Same Without a Very Cold Brew

PELICAN RAPIDS, Minn.�Ben Grandbois was drinking with a buddy at a raucous bar in the middle of frozen North Lida Lake when everything suddenly stopped.

"Somebody yelled, 'bobber down!' and it got all quiet," says the 28-year-old construction engineer from Minneapolis, about three hours southeast of this town of 2,500.

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Close Joe Barrett/The Wall Street Journal

Hillbillies Ice Hole on Minnesota's frozen North Lida Lake attracts fishing and drinking patrons.The bar closes at the end of February before the ice thins.

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