Despite the bitter cold, anglers went out and had a great day of fishing.\u00a0Twenty-four qualifying fish were caught throughout the day, with the first qualifying fish being caught by Tom O\u2019Shaughnessy who brought in a 3.20 pound 24-inch pike;\u00a0and in a nail-biting finish the largest pike was brought in at 4:00 p.m.!<\/p>\n
Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n Winner of the Return of the Sticks Tag Draw: Keith Corston Jr. He won a free entry to the 2021 Derby.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 1st Place with a 31″, 7.70 pound pike is Kevin Henry, winning the grand prize of $10,000!<\/p>\n 2nd place 29″ (6.33 lb pike): Adam Gauthier, winning a Honda ATV.<\/p>\n 3rd place 28″ (5.49 lb pike): Luc Jacques, winning $4,000.<\/p>\n 4th place 27.5″ (4.69 lb pike) caught at 11:08 a.m., by Calvin Groulx, who chose Prize Package A, consisting of a Honda generator and a chain saw. Organizers explained that in the event of a tie weight, the first fish caught is first on the leaderboard. This put Calvin’s fish ahead of Jeremy’s.<\/p>\n 5th place 26 3\/4″ (4.69 lb pike) caught at 3:15 p.m by Jeremy Long, who chose Prize Package C, a prize package of a sleigh, ice hut, and power auger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 6th place 26″ (4.28 lb pike): Sean Nickle, choosing Prize Package\u00a0B, a Dewalt cordless tool kit.<\/p>\n 7th place (4.19 lb pike): Albert Lapierre, choosing Prize Package D, a kayak package.<\/p>\n 8th place 24:” \u00a0(3.97 lb pike): Wilfrid Bouchard. He won prize package E, a camping package.<\/p>\n Sponsored by Justin\u00a0Comeault, Private Wealth Advisor of RBC Wealth Management was the tagged fish. The successful angler was Chris Roy of Wawa, who won $5,000 for having captured the tagged fish during the derby.<\/p>\n The 50-50 ticket draw winner was Roger Lapointe who won the $,2080 pot. The proceeds of the draw were donated to the Chapleau Ski Hill.<\/p>\n The winner of the 2019 Ram 1500 Classic quad cab 4×4 was Roger Roy.<\/p>\n The 24th annual Pike Ice Fishing Derby will be held on Saturday, February 13th, 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite the bitter cold, anglers went out and had a great day of fishing.\u00a0Twenty-four qualifying fish were caught throughout the day, with the first qualifying fish being caught by Tom …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 01:36:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28447"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28496,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28447\/revisions\/28496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}