Fishermen getting stuck on Lake Superior ice is not a new story. Three teenage boys rafted out into the lake off Duluth in the late spring ice of May, 1979. 23 anglers went to sea off Duluth in March, 1993. In most of these stories, the accident evolves slowly enough that rescuers can be notified and come to the aid of all the anglers.
Follow this link for Sam Cook's story about ice anglers out on Lake Superior off of Saxon Harbor, WI. This was a dramatic rescue, a little more so than the typical story of a big ice floe.
