Ice Rescue In Green Lake County

A 79-year-old Princeton man was rescued from Beyers Cove after breaking through the ice while ice fishing Friday afternoon. Beyers Cove is a backwater to Big Green Lake  on the far northwest end of the lake, about 5 miles south of Princeton. The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Dispatch Center got a call about an individual yelling on the Cove shortly after 3 p.m. A Sheriff’s deputy and resident got the man back to shore via canoe. The victim was not injured and refused medical transport. He is expected to survive.