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A Minnesota man fortuitously avoided injury after he had to bail out of his high-speed ice fishing shelter — an adventure that was caught on video.

Related Articles Things To Do | Mayor quits after being mocked for saying ice fishing shanties may bring prostitution The man’s friend had taken off on his snowmobile, forgetting that the portable ice shanty was hitched to it. He went 200 yards before looking behind him, by which time the shanty’s occupant had long since jumped.

Seth Trobec, an amateur videographer, had set up a camera in the shelter, and the result is “Lake Trout Fishing Gone Wrong,” a YouTube video that has gotten more than 650,000 views.

The episode occurred when Trobec and his buddy Cody Mjolsnes were fishing on Feb. 14 at Canisteo Mine Pit Lake, near their homes in the Iron Range.

The video starts with Mjolsnes exiting to go pick up a third friend who was waiting on shore. “I’ll be right back,” he says, unzipping the door of the tentlike shelter.

Thirty seconds later, while Trobec is futzing with equipment, the snowmobile starts up — and the shelter starts moving.

As it picks up speed, the yelling Trobec at first clings to its frame but then drops onto the ice through the opening in the floor.

“I figured I should get out of there,” Trobec said.

He said he was worried about his expensive fish finder and a heater that had been left behind where the ice holes were.

Not only was Trobec not seriously hurt, but the only damage was a broken fishing line on one rod and a lost lure.

“Nothing broke. The depth finder was fine. The heater was still running when I got back to the holes,” Trobec said.

Trobec said the deep snow on the ice likely cushioned the blow when he jumped.

“It was a brain fart by Cody,” Trobec said.

“Guilty as charged,” Mjolsnes added.

“But, really, the hitch was buried in the deep snow and he just didn’t see it,” Trobec explained.

The video shows that Mjolsnes kept going for 30 seconds after Trobec jumped, and then, finally seeing what he had done, doubled back.

“I didn’t realize until I got all the way over there!” he tells Trobec, who responds, “I know!”

The pair eventually retrieved their buddy on shore, went back to the holes they had drilled and, of course, kept fishing.

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