February 11, 2009
Cass Lake Winter Fishing Challenge has come and gone. We had great weather and a better turnout than ever. We look forward to this event growing bigger and better next year.
Pat Murphy of Brainerd won the $2,000 first place cash prize with a 3.94 pound northern he caught 10 minutes before the contest ended. 6 $500 raffle prizes were awarded to Tony Morris, Case Howard, Mary Ausk, Mark Wolters , Tomy Hegland and Scott Pemberton. Other cash prizes went to Anthony Vetsch, $1,500 for 10th place; Selena Breno Raisch, age 12, $1,000 for 20th place; Erick Hoglund, $1,000 for 30th place; and Reece Norenberg, age 10, $1,500 for 40th place. There were also 57 other prizes awarded, worth $100 or more in value. Congratulations to all!
Perch are still biting, with a walleye here and there. There is water on the lake, but we have plenty of ice and it sounds like it will be cooling off starting Thursday this week, so things will be freezing up again.
I am going to try to do some rental ice houses next winter, so let me know if any of you might be interested.
Stop by when your in the area. Hope to see you on the ice.
Good fishing.
Froggy
