Yes and no. There’s a theory among many of those who ice fish that the best fishing can be found at the edge of the ice. So every once in a while there’s some yahoos who get in trouble because they were fishing where they weren’t supposed to.

But with this many people, it’s almost certain that some authority, whether state or local, had said the ice was okay. You also don’t really expect this to happen at this time of year, either.