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Monday, January 22, 2007
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They were fishing to win at extravaganza
Kya Scholler
Age: 4.
City: Brainerd.
Contest experience: A contest first-timer and first time she had ever gone ice fishing.
Fishing strategy: "Fish is in there," she said, pointing to her minnow bucket.
"Are you going to catch a big one?," her mom asked. Kya nodded.
Doug Rinken
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Thousands of people from all over gathered at Saturday's Brainerd Jaycees $150,000 Ice Fishing Extravaganza on Gull Lake. Brainerd Dispatch/Kelly Humphrey
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Age: 47.
City: Sioux Falls, S.D.
Contest experience: A first-timer.
Fishing strategy: Probably crappie fishing.
"I'm considering a crappie rig. I still haven't decided totally. I have to wait until the pressure is on and then I'll decide."
Brad Hoven
Age: 40.
City: Medina.
Contest experience: A first-timer.
Fishing strategy: Find the ugliest fish in Gull Lake - eelpout.
The plan: "My secret strategy is going to be to put a stinger hook on a Vingala (lure) and put it on the bottom and go after an eelpout."
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Cooking brats on a portable grill was a good thing for Keith Schimnich of Cold Spring. However, his luck fishing was questionable at Saturday's Brainerd Jaycees $150,000 Ice Fishing Extravaganza. Brainerd Dispatch/Kelly Humphrey
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Robert Norton
Age: 15.
City: Eagan.
Contest experience: A first-timer.
Fishing strategy: Jigging.
Goal: "I want that truck. I'll be getting my permit soon enough."
Karen Hubbell
Age: 40.
City: Pillager.
Contest experience: A first-timer.
Fishing strategy: Jigging with various bait.
Expectations: "I'm anticipating a very long line because a lot of people are going to catch a lot of fish. And I'm hoping to catch one myself."
Nina Olson
Age: 30.
City: Merrifield.
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Jeremy Olmscheid of St. Cloud showed off the second-place walleye he caught before putting the fish back in a bucket of water. Brainerd Dispatch/Kelly Humphrey
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Contest experience: A first-timer.
Fishing strategy: Use an Aqua-Vu underwater camera (She works for the company.)
Goal: "I'm just hoping to catch something, just anything. I'm just going to try to see what it's like. With 11,000 people on the lake it's going to be quite interesting."
Tony Boss
Age: 18.
City: Eau Claire, Wis.
Contest experience: His second year. Running on two hours of sleep, he worked until 5 a.m. and drove straight to Gull Lake with friends to fish in the contest Saturday.
Fishing strategy: Use a Vexilar depth finder and find a hole on the outer edge of the contest ice, away from other anglers.
"We're going to keep hole hopping until we find fish, I guess. We'll give it a try."
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