He might not have known it at the time, but Dave Genz was making ice fishing history in 1980, when he built the first flip-top portable ice fishing shelter in the garage of his Twin Cities-area home.

Archaeologists excavated 7,000-year-old wooden fish traps at Tesse lake for the first time after a hiker stumbled on the ruins, photos show. Photo from the Cultural History Museum Standing on the bank ...

Archaeologists found wooden stakes in a Norway lake that turned out to be 650-year-old fishing trap abandoned after the Black Death, photos show. Photo from Ellen K. Friis and Cultural History Museum ...

The fish trap was dropped into a quiet canal that had not been explored in over a year. With cat food as bait, the trap sat underwater waiting for something to enter. When it was finally lifted out, ...