Minnesota culture

They battled with snow drifts and waded through knee-deep slush to get to their competition ground on a frozen lake in Bulgaria's southern Rhodope mountains, reports AFP. 

The world's ice angling pros converged this weekend on the Shiroka Polyana lake, 1,500 metres above sea level, to face off at the 16th annual Ice Fishing World Championship.

You plan a to go out on a nice fishing trip with your buddies. What’s the worst thing that could go wrong? Get wet, waste a whole day out in the sea without a single bite, or even worse get a slight prickle while trying to put on worm bait. The last thing you expect to happen to you is literally get knocked out by your large catch!