How to tell if ice is safe

[RockyRaab]

I was fishing Mantua some years back when what appeared to be a high school field trip showed up in two buses. About 50 teens flowed out onto the ice from the boat ramp and proceeded to act like teens. Knots of 10 or so stood tightly together, with some of them yahooing and jumping up and down.

There are springs and weak spots in that corner of Mantua, as we all know, and I was certain I was about to witness a mass dunking - and possible tragedy. Miraculously, the ice held and after a half hour, they all wandered back onto the buses.
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