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Spring brings new season for fishing fans

WAKEFIELD - Fishing is one of those curious pastimes that - funny enough - does not require a lot of success to enjoy.

Kenny Kelch of Bessemer illustrated that while fishing at Sunday Lake last Saturday.

While angling at the shoreline, where water was running freely over the Eddy Park dam, Kelch was full of enthusiasm about how he'd caught nothing of value.

His brother, Kaine Kelch, of Wausau, Wis., was in just as good a mood.

It was a beautiful day, full of sunshine, drawing happy hikers along the trail surrounding the lake, which then still had a broad layer of snow and ice reaching out f...