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Nathaniel Minor
Pelican Rapids, Minn.

The Ice Hole: Part bar, part ice house

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Ice Hole bar
The Ice Hole bar on Lake Lida near Pelican Rapids, Minn. is part bar, part fish house and part gathering place for anglers on the popular lake in northwestern Minnesota.
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Ice road
An ice road leads to the Ice Hole bar, located a few hundred yards off the northeastern shore of Lake Lida in northwestern Minnesota.
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Ice Hole bar
The Ice Hole bar on Lake Lida near Pelican Rapids, Minn. is part bar, part fish house and part gathering place for anglers on the popular lake in northwestern Minnesota.
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Catching a fish
Teresa Nordich, of Rothsay, Minn. holds a perch pulled through one of the two fishing holes in the Ice Hole bar on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012.
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