Gilles Paradis Lands $10,000 Pike

Gilles Paradis and his winning catch.

The MFN Fishing 7th Annual Pike Ice Fishing Derby hosted a field of anglers competing for one of the 4 top cash prizes.

Anglers enticed monster pike to take their baits from 8 am to 4 pm on Saturday. The winning pike weighed in at almost 20 lbs:

1st Gilles Paradis 19lbs 15oz
2nd Keith McLeod 10lbs 11oz
3rd Richard Comeau 7lbs 5oz
4th Clarke Bradley 6lbs 6oz

Winner of the Can-Am Commander XT 800 is: Lee Roy

Congratulations to all fishing participants and ticket holders for supporting our event.

As you probably all know, sponsors are a big part of having a successful event and MFN FIshing would like to thank the following:

NISG for the HEATED portable washrooms
Foodland in Kirkland Lake and Levis Foodland in Timmins
Mike Mason at Mikey’s General Sales for your amazing service and and for borrowing the trailer
Mattagami First Nation
Labatt
Albert’s Sports and Workwear, Dumoulin Fishing Tackle and Typer’s Live Bait
Kiss FM, Cinn FM 91,1 and David Reid for exposer in the media.
Black Fox Fishing
Wikwemikong Tourism

Our amazing volunteers:

Cindy and Joanne in the kitchen (thanks Cindy your spaghetti sauce was excellent!)
Chantal Mantha for your total devotion throughout the day. You girl can take the heat smile emoticon:)
Larry Naveau for your passion for these tournaments. You are our get it done dad. Thanks for all the little last minute requests and for being there for us.
Sebastien Lizotte for stepping up and came to help us out Saturday morning
Uncle Kelly
To our families for all their support.

We would like to thank all our anglers that registered and came fishing. We had a total of 355 registrations!! We appreciate your patience Saturday morning. We are already looking at new ways to improve the inspection process and any feedback, good or bad, we want to hear it. Always room for improvement.

We seen true sportsmanship this weekend!

Thank you

Jessica, Dominique & Crystel