SPORTS
Diehard anglers love their ice fishing
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
Cameron Pound for Great Britain There will be a face from the Canadian International Hockey Academy (CIHA) on the Great Britain Men’s U18 national team at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Under-18 Championship (Division II, Group A) in Estonia in mid-March. Cameron Pound was selected for the team and will be the young- est member of the British squad. First game for Britain will be against Korea on March 22. In the children’s fishing competition, Lu- cas Lamoureux of Embrun won the walleye prize with his 1.1-pound catch. Another winner in the fishing derby is the Rockland Food Bank which will receive $300 out of the proceeds for registration entry fees. over the Valentine’s Day weekend. This year’s derby entry parameters were expanded to allow anglers fishing at holes anywhere along the Ottawa River to come in with their catch for weigh-in before the afternoon deadline.That proved excellent for Martin Parisien, as the Alfred resident won the prize for biggest perch with a four-ounce fish in the bucket of perch he brought in quick fromwhere he’d spent the day fishing around the Lefaivre/Treadwell area. Rockland’s Chris Pepper collected first, second, and third prize for walleye in the adult anglers division. His catches of the day ranged in size from 1.79 pounds to 1.8 pounds. Zack Rochon of Rockland won the prize for pike with a 3.69-pound catch. «A decent size,» said Masson.
Neither snownor sleet nor gloomof amid- winter’s dawnlight will stop a true lover of fishing from enjoying their sport with a passion. In fact, the colder the tempera- ture, the hotter the flame of love for fishing seems to burn, at least on the Ottawa River around Clarence Point during a Valentine Weekend ice fishing derby. The thermometer early in themorning on Valentine’s Day had sunk down towards the minus 20 level. A steady wind blew through Eastern Ontario as the forerunner to amild snow squall heading west out of Québec into Ontario later that same day. Out on the Ottawa River, the ice huts sprang up as dedicated anglers indulged in a weekend of ice fishing, including the participants in this year’s Al’s Annual Ice Fishing Derby. Alain Masson, derby orga- nizer, agreed during a later interview that the numbers for this year’s derby were lower than those of past seasons. «The weather just killed us,»Masson said, with a rueful chuckle. «But it was still great fun for the kids.They all got multiple prizes, and stuff to take home.» Masson estimates 50 adults and 15 chil- dren were entered in the lists for this year’s ice fishing derby. Before the weekend, he had anticipated as many as 200, but that was before the change in the weather and the extreme cold that blanketed the region
Dedicated anglers braved subzero temperature and steady wind to enjoy their passion for fishing over the Feb. 14 weekend on the Ottawa River near Clarence Point during Al’s Annual Ice Fishing Derby.
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