Max Alfiero, left and his brother Nick Alfiero both of Standish drill holes for ice fishing on Moose Pond in Bridgton near their friend John Daggett's pop-up ice fishing shack. The pop-up shacks ...

MCKINLEY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Three anglers are safe after a homemade ice-fishing shanty was blown about a mile (1.6 kilometers) across a bay in Michigan by winds that neared 50 mph (80 kph ...

A person onshore called Huron County dispatchers after seeing someone struggling with the shanty as it was being blown across the ice on Saginaw Bay off McKinley Township.

As pop-up shacks become more popular, more ice fishermen migrate to the movable shanties. But the tradition of the more permanent ice shack remains.

This undated photo provided by the Huron County Sheriff’s office shows a homemade ice-fishing shanty that was blown about a mile across the ice on Saginaw Bay off McKinley Township in Michigan ...

This undated photo provided by the Huron County Sheriff’s office shows a homemade ice-fishing shanty that was blown about a mile across the ice on Saginaw Bay off McKinley Township in Michigan, by ...

Authorities say three anglers are safe after a homemade ice-fishing shanty was blown about a mile across a bay in Michigan by winds that neared 50 mph.