At Zippel Bay Resort on Minnesota's legendary Lake ... is open all year long — in the winter, ice fishers congregate at Lake of the Woods, and the fishing just keeps going.

A northern Minnesota ice fishing guide remains hospitalized ... LOTW Sleepers is based near the south shoreline of Lake of the Woods near the Minnesota border with Canada.

Thanks to unseasonably warm weather, ice fishing was a bust last winter ... Bald Eagle or other metro lakes, or trek to Lake of the Woods on Minnesota’s Ontario border, they’ll likely find ...