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The floe detached at around 4:57 p.m. local time, quickly creating a gulf of 30 feet of open water between the floe and the southeastern shore of Upper Red Lake, the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office said in a release on Facebook.

An ice floe detached from the shoreline of Upper Red Lake in Beltrami County, Minnesota, Friday, stranding the 122 ice fishermen on top of it.

“Most years, the ice would be thick enough by now for vehicles and wheelhouses, and we’d be seeing a steady procession of them heading north. But this year isn’t ‘most years,’ and the ice is changing constantly,” Beltrami County Sheriff Jason Riggs said in the DNR release.

Beltrami County Sheriff Jason Riggs said on Facebook that “few, if any, areas of the state have the ice thickness necessary” to hold structures placed on the ice for fishermen, often known as wheelhouses.

In Tuesday morning’s incident, according to the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office, the pilot of the Cessna 172 identified what he believed was a safe landing area.