Yesterday was the annual fishing derby at Lake Francis. It started out as an awesome day, a little chilly but a great day to be on the ice. At about 1100 the wind picked up and that took a little of the fun out of it! We had arrived nice and early so we had already caught a fair amount of perch and several small Northern. None of the Northern (Pike) were big enough to keep, but some of the perch were nice sized. When we left our biggest perch weighed .64 lbs and the biggest one that had been caught during the derby was 1.3 lbs. That is a HUGE perch! Needless to say, we didn't win the derby!!!
We were lucky enough to have a couple that we know from Conrad join us midmorning. (Cal and Sandy) The perch were still biting so they were able to catch some and I think they had a good time. I know we enjoyed getting to see them!
These first two pictures show all the people. Many of them have ice houses that they set up and leave out on the ice for the entire season. Even though the ice was thick we don't ever drive out on it, but many of these people have no qualms at all about driving all over. (Crazy if you ask me)
Here is Clint with one of the nice perch we caught on a tip-up.
This is me and Clint with several of the nicer perch we caught. They don't really look that big in the picture, but I promise that they are decent sized for perch!
Here are Cal and Sandy with some of the perch as well!
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