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Ladies first in Mercer Lions Club ice tourney

By P.J. GLISSON

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MERCER - A nearly 30-inch northern pike made Angie Grimm the first-place winner of $125 at Saturday's Mercer Lions Club annual ice fishing tournament.

Matt Weber, who was in the same group as Grimm, said in a Sunday phone interview the group as a whole pulled in 11 other northern pike, ranging from about 18 to 25 inches. He said they also got "60-some crappies."

According to Weber, Grimm's fish was 28.5 inches, and she caught it with a walleye sucker in shallow water on Grand Portage Lake.

He said it was the fourth year his group had won the tourney,...

 
 
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