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MLOOSC’s 2017 Ice Fishing Contest dropped a line today

 

 

The annual Mountain Lake/Odin/Ormsby Area Sportsman Club’s (MLOOSC) Ice Fishing Contest on Mountain Lake dropped a line today (Saturday, January 28). A total 116 adults took to the iced-over lake to try their luck, and 22 kids participated in their own contest.

Fishing awards (first, second and third) were presented in four categories:

+ Northern Pike –

  • First: Tara Kleven, 8.81#.
  • Second: Wyatt Tordesen, 8.66#.
  • Third: Deb Dorschner.

+ Walleye –

  • First: Jessie Kolander, .61#.
  • Second: Mason Neitzel, Draw.
  • Third: Dominick Smith, Draw.

+ Bass –

  • First: Don Dunker, 1.89#.
  • Second: Trevor Reese: 1.74#.
  • Third: Dallas Rogers, 1.69#.

+ Pan Fish – 

  • First: Levi Feltman, .77# crappie.
  • Second: Phil Stahl, .45# bluegill.
  • Third: Paul Bakalyar, .44# bluegill.

+ Kids (12 and Under) –

  • First: Toby Osland, 10.94# northern.
  • Second: Cole Kleven, 3.92# northern
  • Third: Trayton Neitzel, .44# bluegill.

 

A chili feed and MLOOSC annual meeting followed the ice fishing contest and award presentation. In addition, door prizes were raffled.

Below is a photo gallery from the fishing day on the ice:

 

GETTING SET TO drop a line into Mountain Lake at the start of the 2017 MLOOSC Ice Fishing Contest.

 

 

A LINE OF evergreen trees at back stand guard over the temporary fish house “city” on Mountain Lake.

 

 

MOM AND SON fishing buddies. Cole Kleven, left, holds up the catches he and his mom, Tara Kleven, right, made on the day. At left is Cole’s 3.92# northern, good enough for second in the kids contest, and in his right hand, his mom’s first-place 8.81# northern.

 

 

LEVI FELTMAN WITH his first-place panfish, a .77# crappie.

 

 

TRAVIS KONZ PROUDLY holds his catch, a 7.69# northern.

 

 

 

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