Trav,
I think the name of the lake is Medicine Lake, just NW of Minneapolis. I lived in Plymouth and went by there every day.
In winter after the lake froze deep you'd see little houses and cars out on the lake. I saw a fish somebody caught outa there one day. About 2 1/2 feet in length and TEETH so long he could barely shut his damn mouth. Uff Da! :re:
I was up there from 1972 until 1978. Worked over in St. Paul.
I had never been out of the South. First winter I was there it got down to minus 31 degrees with a minus eighty-something wind chill.
I remember thinking, "What the hell have I done?"