article_snippet: In a video titled, 'Shocking ice fishing video from northwestern Pennsylvania!', Friend Nicholas Colangelo filmed Friend Nicholas Colangelo friend Fred Christensen pulling a live red-breasted merganser out of a hole in a large sheet of ice in  Monday.
article_snippet: Red-breasted mergansers dive into the water while foraging for food and can usually stay under for a little under a minute - so
article_snippet: Catch of the day: Three men were ice fishing in northwestern Pennsylvania when the caught a red-breasted merganser on Three men line as it was diving for food .
article_snippet: Unusual: Christensen was hesitant to reach into the water at first, but Christensen grabbed the merganser and likely saved the merganser from drowning on the end of his fishing line .
article_snippet: Christensen said that Christensen had never heard of people catching a merganser through the ice, but said that a merganser occasionally happens 'in open water in ares where large amounts of water birds like to congregate'.
article_snippet: Catch-and-release: Red-breasted mergansers dive into the water looking for food.
article_snippet: Christensen that that three days prior to catching the merganser, Christensen had another unusual bird encounter. '