Inside The World’s Craziest Ice-Fishing Party

10,000 determined partygoers descend on an icy Minnesota lake for 3 days of madness Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here »]( [Mens Journal]( The World’s Craziest, and Booziest, Ice-Fishing Party AS I WALK out onto the ice of Leech Lake, in north-central Minnesota, a snowmobile buzzes past, towing a half-dozen parka-clad college kids on a living-room love seat. It’s actually less love seat than tricked-out throne sled, complete with speakers overhead blasting AC/DC, a couple of built-in beer funnels, and two American flags flying from 15-foot poles. The bundled sofa surfers (think: pigs in a blanket wearing Nepalese Sherpa hats) shout greetings and raise their cans of Budweiser toward me in salute. I wave back as they disappear behind a row of parked pickups. With the temperature hovering in the teens, it’s a relatively balmy February morning for upstate Minnesota, and the 2018 International Eelpout Festival is gearing up for its second, and rowdiest, day. [READ MORE]( ®2018 Men's Journal 4 New York Plaza, New York, NY, 10004 [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy]( [Terms of Use](