Rapala is recalling 3,000 StrikeMaster ice augers because of an injury hazard. The trigger switch on the auger could fail and the unit not turn off. The Lithium Lazer ice auger is used by ice ...

Not even a decade ago, four-stroke gas augers and propane augers seemed to be the way we would bore holes in the ice well into the future. But how times have changed! Advances in batteries, ...

Come deep winter in the north country, the steady, ongoing noise of an outboard engine making its way across the water is replaced by the short, high pitched roar of an ice auger, growling its way ...

Minnetonka-based Rapala has recalled 3,000 ice augers because the trigger could malfunction and leave the unit running, federal officials said. The recall announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety ...

Finnish fishing tackle giant Rapala VMC Corp. has acquired StrikeMaster Corp. of Big Lake, Minn., a leading supplier of ice augers, in a deal that gives Rapala the proverbial opening in the ice ...