The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County by Jerry Apps

Author:Jerry Apps [Apps, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Sunday, the second day of Trail Marker Oak Days, dawned sunny and cool. The weather report said the high would be in the mid-seventies, ideal weather for almost anything one wanted to do outside. There was little or no wind, so the fishermen didn’t have to fight rough water in their quest for a winning catch.

Contestants for the Big Bass Fishing Contest roared off in their fishing boats at dawn, to the far corners of Link Lake where they thought a big bass might be lurking. By noon, when the fishing contest was officially over, fishermen, who had to keep their catches alive and release them after they were measured and weighed, lined up to see who was the winner of the event that offered a prize of $500 for the biggest catch. Posted near the landing was a note that said Wisconsin’s record largemouth bass was caught in 1940 and weighed in at eleven pounds. Bass fishermen always hoped they had an outside chance of beating the record as well as winning the cash prize for the largest catch of the day. As it turned out, a fisherman from Princeton caught a five-pound, ten-ounce bass, which proved to be the winner for the event.

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