{"id":1263,"date":"2017-03-06T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2017-03-06T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:52:30","slug":"wawa-ice-fishing-derby-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/06\/wawa-ice-fishing-derby-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa Ice Fishing Derby a Sold Out Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 6, 2017 @ 08:14<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The 26th Annual Wawa Ice Fishing Derby was a great success! Sold out with 1400 tickets, organizers were pleased with the reception of the new format. For the first time, there were prizes for each lake, and the winner was the largest sport fish, independent of the species. The prizes were only awarded to the top six fish on each lake. There were lake trout, whitefish, pike, walleye and a brook trout entered. Of the top nine fish, 6\u00a0were lake trout, 2 were pike and one walleye.<\/p>\n

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The weekend began with the registration, and the draws for extra prizes that had been donated. Winners had to be present to win their prize.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Saturday, the weather was beautiful and lots\u00a0and lots of anglers could be seen out on Wawa and Hawk Lake if you were out for a drive. Fish were coming in throughout the afternoon to the delight of the attendees at the Michipicoten Memorial Community Centre.<\/p>\n

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Later that evening the registration draw prizes were drawn after welcoming speeches by Mayor Ron Rody and Rotary Youth Exchange Student Celine\u00a0Mischke from Herzogenaurach, Germany.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Celine drew the winning tickets from the barrel stirred by Derby Official Shayne Wardrop.\u00a0Residents of Wawa were big winners, five tickets were drawn to win $1000 each: Mark Toffner, Jana Strouhlova, Denis Valiere, Derek\u00a0\u00a0Bradley, Gilbert Legace all of Wawa.<\/p>\n

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The winner of this year\u2019s top registration prize of $30,000 is Pauline Neyland. In former years, Pauline would have won a pickup truck, the traditional prize. After the draws, the arena was the scene of a dance, with music provided by Nuit.<\/p>\n

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Scott Popert and Rob Clarke checking the tag and collecting information from the angler about the fish about to be weighed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Scott weighing this fish.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Sunday began out bright and sunny, but by lunchtime, the weather had changed. It was now cloudy and there were brief spurts of snow. The fish didn’t seem to mind, they were hungry.<\/p>\n

Many fish when they were cleaned still had undigested minnows in their stomachs. Chayse Penno who inspected and cleaned all the fish during the derby weekend, let every angler know what their fish was eating. Chayse was also the creator of the lovely steel roses for sale at the weigh-in\u00a0station.<\/p>\n

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Finally it was time to give out the prizes for the winners. As reported earlier, the top six sport fish caught on one of the three lakes (Hawk, Wawa and Manitowik Lake) were prize winners. The winner had their choice of prizes, in order of ranking. 1st prize took their choice, and so on down the line. There were a couple of delays as some anglers were not present to choose their prize. Happily, one was reachable by phone with only a short delay, and the other two had left their choice of prize with the Derby Committee.<\/p>\n

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Winners of the 2017 Wawa Ice Fishing Derby are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Wawa Lake<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Hawk Lake<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Manitowik Lake<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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1<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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7.03<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Michael Brown<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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15.97<\/h5>\n
Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Jo-anne Chartrand<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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10.16<\/h5>\n
Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Sylvain Bernard<\/h5>\n
(Dubreuilville)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.38<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Jamie (Brett) Robinson<\/h5>\n
(Wawa)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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11.03<\/h5>\n
Walleye<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Bonnie White<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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9.50<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Heather Gagnon<\/h5>\n
(Dubreuilville)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.16<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Devon Spooner<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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10.31<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Kris Bain<\/h5>\n
(Hawk Junction)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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9.26<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Chad Schellekens<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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4<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.09<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Anders Dereski<\/h5>\n
(Wawa)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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7.46<\/h5>\n
Walleye<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Curtis White<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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9.05<\/h5>\n
Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Norm Savoie<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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5<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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5.63<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Colin Gallant<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.65<\/h5>\n
Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Shane Corbeil<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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8.63<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Robert Elliott<\/h5>\n
(Wawa)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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6<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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5.35<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Kristan Washburn<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.05<\/h5>\n
Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Tyler Smith<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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8.21<\/h5>\n
Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Tristan Tuarze<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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7<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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5.34<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Tom Moore<\/h5>\n
(Wawa)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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5.63<\/h5>\n
Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Jamie Cousineau<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.83<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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James Ruffo<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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8<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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5.24<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Carl Case<\/h5>\n
(Wawa)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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5.34<\/h5>\n
Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Ashley Fernandez<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.48<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Wayne Barill<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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9<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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4.37<\/h5>\n
Whitefish<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Mike Sim<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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4.82 – Pike<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Christine Hiebert<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.23<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Jacob Grey<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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4.11<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Gilles Begin<\/h5>\n
(Wawa)<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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4.63<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Wayne Ruff<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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6.20<\/h5>\n
Lake Trout<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n
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Terry Shewfelt<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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