5th Annual Bass Lake Ice Fishing Contest

[hunt fish repeat]

5th Annual Bass Lake Contest Somerset FEBRUARY 21ST., WI just 7 miles East of Stillwater. Two fellow FMers have recently stepped up to offer guided fishing trips as additional prizes I'll have to work these in as perhaps special door prizes Over $50,000 in prizes. No tagged fish all prizes will be given out.

Prizes for the top 50 fish are as follows:

1 2008 Dodge Extended Cab 4x4 truck (MSRP $27,535)

2 Ice Team Fishing Package

(Ice Armor Cold Suit, Fish Trap Scout, & Rod/Reel)

3 MarCum Flasher

4 Clam Fish Trap Yukon Shelter

5 Ice Armor Cold Suit

6-7 Strike Master Ice Auger

8 Vexilar Flasher

9 Clam Fish Trap Guide Shelter

10 MarCum Flasher

11 Clam Fish Trap Scout Shelter

12-14 Country Splash Ticket Package

15 Clam Fish Trap Guide Shelter

16 MarCum Flasher

17 Remington 870 Shotgun

18 Vexilar Flasher

19 Wilcraft Rental Package

20 Ice Armor Cold Suit

21 MarCum Flasher

22 MarCum Camera

23 Vexilar Flasher

24-27 Clam Fish Trap Pro Shelter

28 Clam Fish Trap Guide Shelter

29 Ice Armor Cold Suit

30-31 StrikeMaster Hardwater Wear

32 MarCum Camera

33 Warner’s Dock Hummingbird Depth Finder

34 Vexilar Flasher

35 Vexilar Cold-Snap Gear

36 Ice Team Package

(Vexilar Cold-Snap Gear, Fish Trap Scout, & Rod/Reel)

37 MarCum Flasher

38 Ice Armor Cold Suit

39 Clam Fish Trap Pro Shelter

40-49 Strike Master Ice Auger

50 Canadian Fishing Package

Additionally raffles all day for shelters, augers, shotguns, flashers etc....100% non-profit all volunteer contest.

[AndyM]

I'm definetly going to this. Is there a lake map available anywhere to check out? Just thought it would be helpfull. Thanks

[DonBo]

Not much of a map, but try this.

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/water/fhp/lakes/lakemap/2450500z.htm

[AndyM]

Thanks

[hunt fish repeat]

The DNR map is the best one I know of, I don't think it's on a lakemaster chip. (the contest will once again be held on the North end of the lake in 4' to 35' FOW.)

[BK19]

just saw on th news that the winner cheated he smuggled a northern under his coat ,people turned him in and when asked to take a lie detector test he gave the keys to the truck back and withdrew from the contest so the gal that got second place ended up winning

[Whisker Trout Slayer]

Do you have a link? I don't know what time that guy made it onto teh ice to pick his hole but how in the heck do you keep a northern alive for at least 2 1/2 hours under your coat. I seen him carrying it up to the weigh scale around 2:30pm.

[BK19]

Cheating Fisherman

Forfeits Grand Prize

After Apparently

Smuggling In Winning

Fish

Something "fishy" about the winning

entry

Created On: Tuesday, 24 Feb 2009, 4:37 PM CST

he was buying bottled waterand pouring it on the fish under his coat

Bill Keller

Julie Rose

SOMERSET, Wis. - The winner of a Wisconsin angling contest has forfeited the grand prize after suspicions surfaced that he cheated.

On Saturday, more than 2,500 contestants took to the ice on Bass Lake in Somerset, Wis.

During the ice fishing contest, Monica Slimmen caught a northern pike weighting just 1.72 pounds. It was good enough for second price. But Tuesday, Slimmen was handed the keys to a brand new truck, after the first place finisher admitted to cheating.

"It was really shocking, I haven't slept in two days," says Slimmen. "I'm so excited."

Event organizers say when the truck was originally awarded to 38-year-old Lee Shehow of New Richmond, Wis., he used an interesting choice of words. He apparently said he'd "drive it like it was stolen."

Tournament leaders later received several anonymous tips, saying Shehow rigged the contest, by smuggling in the winning 2.4-lb. pike inside his coat.

"He was buying water from the girls, out buying water and pop, and he was all wet on his shirt and inside his coat. And that was some suspicious activity also," says John Montpetit, event organizer. "He was very nervous when he came up, and the people registering the fish and weighing the fish thought something was abnormal."

A private investigator and polygraph expert was called in, but rather than take a lie detector test, the man disqualified himself from the contest.

This year, the winter tradition raised more than $100,000 for the town's Youth Athletic Association. While the results of the contest may have been tainted, Slimmen never thought her second prize fish would've landed her a $27,000 pick-up truck.

"I was complaining all winter that I didn't have four wheel drive, so now I have four wheel drive, so that will be nice," says Slimmen.

The St. Croix Sheriff's Department is investigating the case, but because Shehow forfeited the prize, it's possible that no criminal charges will be filed.

Officials say they will tighten up security for next year's contest.