When you put 10,000 adults together on ice over a weekend full of drinking, games, and ice fish houses...things can go wrong. A young man was found dead at Eelpout Festival on Sunday.
A northern Minnesota festival to celebrate an ugly bottom-feeding fish enters its 39th year Thursday. The International Eelpout Festival in Walker is held on Leech Lake and was started as a way to draw tourists to town in the wintertime.
One of the weirdest Minnesota festivals, held completely on a Minnesota lake, starts today in Walker, Minnesota. It's everything 'eelpout', a nasty lake-bottom, ugly fish.