West Wisconsin at Dunn streets: At 12:54 a.m. Saturday, Portage police stopped a vehicle for not having headlights turned on. The driver, Cody J. Simonson, 17, of Portage, was arrested on a tentative charge of operating while drugged as a first offense and cited for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police said Simonson told them he smoked marijuana before heading out to see a "Harry Potter" movie.

City officials want ice anglers to drop their lines somewhere other than the big pond at Portage's Pauquette Park.

But if city employees see anyone cutting a hole in the ice, which also is a popular winter skating spot, all they can do is say, "Please don't."

This situation is more than a little frustrating for Tim Raimer, the city's manager of parks, recreation and forestry, who worries that an angler's unfilled holes might cause a skater to fall and sustain a serious injury.

It's not an abstract concern. At least one skater has had an ankle injury this winter, Raimer said, after tripping over a hole that appeared to have been drilled for ice fishing on the frozen surface of the Pauquette Park pond.

But Raimer said a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources official told him early this week that, even though the pond has a state license as a fish farm, people cannot be prohibited from ice fishing on the pond. Nor can they be cited, either by city officials or state game wardens, for doing so.

"What are we going to do? We're in a Catch-22," he said.

On the one hand, no one has the authority to keep ice fishing off the lake. On the other hand, Raimer said, the city could be legally liable if a skater is seriously injured by any obstacle on the ice, including a fishing hole.