Grant Sorensen chronicles his approach to the ever-changing ice conditions on the St. Louis River and provides some great advice on how to make adjustments to location following a cold front.
Note: In-Depth Outdoors does NOT recommend walking on thin, broken or otherwise unsafe ice. Do not duplicate or try on your own body of water. You will get hurt.
Grant. I’m yelling at you for walking around on ice-cubes. 
Joel
I told him if I was his dad he would be grounded from ice fishing for a week.
Grant – you’re nuts!!
Nice ‘On Ice – Chunks ‘ update 
Grant, please watch this video. Twice. Sound on, please. 
Damn kids ! 
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Grant, please watch this video. Twice. Sound on, please.
Haha! It looks a lot worse than it was trust me. But that’s common down there, I can’t stress it enough that ice conditions change so rapidly and can go from great, to not even walkable in 5 hours, even in the dead of winter in -20 degree temps. It is an unpredictable river system and you always have to use caution. You didn’t see it in the video, but I was not alone, I waited until daylight to head out, and had the necessary safely precaution items close by.
The video just plain out shows how it is down there. I don’t want to give a false hope by only showing great ice and big fish because that’s not what it is like. You have to see the ugly side too lol with bad ice and small fish.
love the disclaimers! I would have turned around.
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Grant, dammit be careful. Your making my sitter pucker! If you were my kid, you would be getting a ROYAL a** chewing.
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Grant, please watch this video. Twice. Sound on, please.
Haha! It looks a lot worse than it was trust me. But that’s common down there, I can’t stress it enough that ice conditions change so rapidly and can go from great, to not even walkable in 5 hours, even in the dead of winter in -20 degree temps. It is an unpredictable river system and you always have to use caution. You didn’t see it in the video, but I was not alone, I waited until daylight to head out, and had the necessary safely precaution items close by.
The video just plain out shows how it is down there. I don’t want to give a false hope by only showing great ice and big fish because that’s not what it is like. You have to see the ugly side too lol with bad ice and small fish.
Am assuming that you didn’t come back in after dark, yes? BTW, you’re nuts. 
Looking good Grant. Less traffic on the ice if you scare people away! 
Note to self. Stay on the bigger chunks of ice
hmmmm…..interesting walk to say the least. Nice piece though kinda crazy seeing the chunks dip when stepped on like that.
Insane Grant!
No thanks. No fish worth that.
You are indeed nuts.
Or just young and dumb, take your pick.
We ever fish together it will be in a boat, no matter what time of year it is..:)
Nice video though… 
Al
Crazy. I’ve crossed ice like that near shore on a lake at late ice, but I would never consider it on a river. Too dangerous. Even with someone else there if you go in it would be next to impossible to pull yourself out onto a floating chunk of ice in current.
hope you don’t incourage someone else to do that with this video yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Note: In-Depth Outdoors does NOT recommend walking on thin, broken or otherwise unsafe ice. Do not duplicate or try on your own body of water. You will get hurt.
This would be a “dis-couragement”, wouldn’t it?
I have faith in Grant to know what he was doing. He has been doing it 4-5 days a week for a few years now.
I look at this the same as I do the guys fishing the edge of the ice within 50 feet of open water on the St Croix. Looks reckless as hell when a person doesn’t know what they are doing.
Me? I like thick ice or a boat.
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I told him if I was his dad he would be grounded from ice fishing for a week.
I seem to remember a even more dangerous video of someone from this site catching lakers on a floating slab of ice that they boated up to and punched some holes
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I told him if I was his dad he would be grounded from ice fishing for a week.
I seem to remember a even more dangerous video of someone from this site catching lakers on a floating slab of ice that they boated up to and punched some holes
Guilty.
There are guys that will block hop on late ice here in Keweenaw Bay on Lake Superior…but I’m not one of the them. In addition to gray, honeycomb and candle ice, I would be concerned in getting to close to an edge, having the slab teeter-totter, and getting dumped under the slabs with no way to get back through.
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having the slab teeter-totter, and getting dumped under the slabs with no way to get back through.
Commonly called “trap door”.
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