32nd Annual Ice-Out Contest
2026
How about it?



Tired of looking out at that lake and seeing nothing but ice and snow? Do you have everything you ordered for next fishing season? Dreaming of being on the water with a fishing rod in your hands? Want to fire up the boat and check out what's on the other side of that island?

This won't make it happen any sooner but how about guessing when the ice is going off our lake! Just submit your entry below, send it along, and we'll post it with all the others! More than one person can guess a date but ONLY one entry per person please. (Of course if you have 5 kids, that's 5 more guesses! Oops, make that 6 more if your wife is still with you!!)

What can one compare "Ice-Out" on Lake Vermilion to? Maybe the removal of a plaster cast? Or the lifting of the burden of depression? Maybe it's just simply the renewal of the human spirit? Yes, to us "all year-a-rounders", it's as important as that! It doesn't always happen on the same day every spring, but it does happen.

What's the probability of an early ice-out happening this year? How about a chart of what day it happened during past years. If you want to see when it happened on a particular year, rather than trying to find the year, check out the other chart I've prepared that shows ice-out dates for each year.

Would you like to take a guess what day the ice will go out on Lake Vermilion?
Click on the contest application below!


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