Friday, February 5, 2010

Ice Fishing Derby

Coldest assignment yet: an ice fishing derby on Lake Winnipesaukee last weekend. I am getting used to New Hampshire. It seems everything we Southerners do on water, they do on ice and snow: skiing, tubing, fishing, walking... It's all very impressive.

The last photo might be my favorite. It ran big in the paper under the headline "Fish Pageantry". I shot it from behind the winner's board. Sometimes you lie down in the snow for a picture and it's not worth it, but then sometimes it is.


Gregg Grant anchors down his bob house after retrieving dragging it back where it belonged, on Lake Winnipesaukee, January 29, 2010. Friday's heavy winds blew the hut almost half a mile across the lake. "It felt like 10 miles when we were dragging it back here," he joked. Grant plans to sell coffee to competitors in the 2010 Great Meredith Rotary Fishing Derby this weekend. (Sarah Beth Glicksteen/Concord Monitor staff photo)





Ice fishermen participated in the 2010 Great Meredith Rotary Fishing Derby on Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith, NH, on January 31, 2010. (from left) Jorja Moore, 1, Melissa Moore, Dante Moore, 3, and Alexis Moore, 5, watch as Alexis' father and Dante and Jorja's uncle catches a yellow perch. Earlier in the day he caught a 12 1/2 inch-long ellow perch weighing .94 pounds that made it onto the board. "It's my first time posting on the board after fishing all these years," Thomas Moore Jr. said. He's fished in this derby for 15 years, since he was 12. Over the course of the day, each kid pulled up a yellow perch. (Sarah Beth Glicksteen/Concord Monitor staff photo)




Rick Forcier, from Dalton, waits in line at derby headquarters with a rainbow trout that had a preliminary weight of 2 1/4 pounds. (Sarah Beth Glicksteen/Concord Monitor staff photo)


Patrick Kelly, 9, watches as his dad, Pat Kelly announces the winner of the derby, Dave Waniski (right), of Gilmanon Iron Works, who won a boat for catching a 3.05 pound tagged rainbow trout. Photographer on right is Jerry Ulbricht, of Moultonborough. Ice fishermen participated in the 2010 Great Meredith Rotary Fishing Derby on Lake Winnipesaukee in Meredith, NH, on January 31, 2010. (Sarah Beth Glicksteen/Concord Monitor staff photo)

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