That, Thoennes said, and the fish still have to pass a good old-fashioned eyeball test under the supervision of experienced anglers.
“The Jaycees will be on laptops or computers or devices and verifying the fish pictures. So, if the fish looks sketchy or if they haven’t measured it right, we can technically deny that picture and have them retake it,” Thoennes said. “Most of us are fishermen. So we know if a fish looks a day old, if it looks dead, so we’ll be verifying pictures, and we have the full power to accept or deny any that we don’t like.”
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The Brainerd Jaycees $150,000 Ice Fishing Extravaganza draws in roughly 10,000 anglers on Gull Lake in the Brainerd Lakes Area each year.
James Pepel is one of them. He s been going for years. It s usually a fun weekend, we go stay up there, just friends and my brothers, we all go up there to have a good time, he said.
But after three decades, this year, the tournament is pivoting so it can continue.
A 2019 photo of the Brainerd Jaycee Fishing Tournament.
Courtesy of the event. I think a lot of people want to be here in person but we can’t do that because of the pandemic, Benji Thoennes, chairman and event director of the contest, said.
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