Iron Range mine pits … not just for disposing of Jimmy Hoffa’s body anymore*.

Sam Cook’s column in today’s Duluth News-Tribune explores the success of the program that stocks our abandoned, flooded mine pits with large, delicious fish.

Fishing in a mine pit is just like fishing in a lake except that if you step out of your boat during the landing process you sink 500 feet and skewer yourself on a rusty mine shovel from 1908. But hey, the fish are huge and trained to bite your hook.

* (Just a rumor … I think?)