We all know there are some great places to stay when Ice Fishing. We also know their are some that are not so good.
Here are a couple pics of the “not so good”.
Anybody have any they could add?
I would send pics of what’s on the walls of the shacks, but I would get kicked off IDO. 
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That there would be a fixer upper. 
Not ice fishing but fishing accommodations just the same…atleast 10 years ago…
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Didn’t take any photos but stayed at one place the 1st thing we did was head to town to find a can of lysol. Place smelled like they housed cats in there.
Cat pee is the worst.
How much did they pay you to stay there EPG?
It was colder inside this shack on Upper Red than outside. Won’t name the resort.
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I wasn’t with, but a couple good buddies rented a sleeper on LOTW for their first trip there….a gallon jug of water on the floor froze solid on the first night lol
Or room on upper red had no light bulbs. This was 15 years ago. We borrowed one from another room for the fish cleaning shack too.
No pics but one time at a motel, the shower drain was froze up. Luckily I was first in the shower that day.
Lol. Yeah. I’ve stayed at some doozies. Sometimes there’s really no other options. So you go back several times. I get a kick out of the look on my kids faces in those joints. I remember going to the casino motel in Warroad back in the day with my dad. You could hear what I’m sure were rats the size of black labs running in the ceiling. They actually payed you to stay there in casino bucks.
Not ice fishing but fishing accommodations just the same…atleast 10 years ago…
I once came across the same such abandoned scene and it was almost beyond bizarre.
This was about 12 years ago and I found a small resort on a “good” muskie lake in central MN. One of the remaining “ma and pa” resorts with 5 cabins. I made my reservation for sometime in July for a week.
I was notified someone will meet me for check-in. When I get there I find that there is no longer anyone on the premise and the resort owner had a neighbor check me in at the uninhabited office main home.
I then find out that I’ll be the only guest at the entire resort (I was by myself for this trip) for the whole week. And this is peak summer season??
To say it was surreal was an understatement as I sat on the beach amongst all the other cabins…and I’m the only one there!
Rather strange, but then it get’s stranger.
I decide to take an afternoon to hike around the lake. First I come across a dilapidated cabin like the one in your photo and explore through that and wondered about the history of who owned it and who spent time there…sorting through the remains that were left.
As I made my way around the lake I found not one but 3 abandoned resorts…and that was really spooky. One looked like it was post WW2 because the cabins were built like military barracks…but it was clearly an old resort.
I rummaged around all 3 of them and not another soul around. It was like time stopped years ago and nobody ever came back.
That will be one of the strangest fishing vacations I’ll have ever had. And no muskies were caught either. 
Cat pee is the worst.
My brother says his two cats never pee in his house, ok. I used to help a carpet guy for extra cash years ago and I can tell you that EVERY cat pees on the flooring, especially carpet and if you have two cats- 2x the pee!
EPG, those pictures look like a rental home in Mankato owned by RentMSU…
We had a snowdrift form in our hallway once. A can of great stuff, a 2×4 and some white paint and maintenance had us all fixed up. Also fell through the bathroom floor..with my willy out…doing a #1…but rent was cheap!
Stayed at a place up near Hurley, WI area a couple years ago. It was super cheap and the bathroom floor was fully carpeted. If you miss, no problem, the carpet will catch it. Didn’t have a kitchen sink either, so we did dishes in the bathtub. Would I go back? Yep.
Walleye Dundees put us up in an “ice house” one time probably 8 or so years ago. We stayed one night and went home…the house was a combination of the trailer park boys set and something Walter White works out of. The walls had cracks big enough to let snow through, the beds were so moldy you couldn’t lay on them and there was only 1 working light for the entire house. The house hadn’t been moved all winter by the looks of it, you couldn’t even reach the ice if you were laying on the floor. The topping on the cake? A big frozen pile of poopie right outside the door.
Warning, never rent a place that uses the word, “rustic” in its description.
Wow eelpout, I would have thought with the nice dock you build at your cabin you would have done something with the inside. I have stayed in some crappy places but I think you win with that one.
EPG, those pictures look like a rental home in Mankato owned by RentMSU…
They must have had some houses in St. Peter too, I remember one house in particular you couldn’t keep a lighter lit in the kitchen without shielding it from the draft lol.
Sounds like Camp Crystal Lake.
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