Ice Fishing Contests

Ice fishing contests offer prizes for the largest fish caught within a limited time period, many offer a prize for the biggest fish caught as well. In Michigan, USA, "Tip-Up Town, USA" can bring 40,000 people out onto Houghton Lake for festivities which include ice fishing, snowmobiling, snow sculpting and fireworks. In Wisconsin the Bass Lake Ice Fishing Contest is an annual ice fishing contest held each February with a prize payout of over $50,000 and 100% of the proceeds are donated to charity.
Forest Lake, MN is host to a contest which was once regarded as the largest ice fishing contest in the world. In its heyday, 12,000 anglers would compete for trucks, boats and at one point even $100,000 cash prize. In 2008 Forest Lake's newest contest called Fishapalooza, paid out over $185,000 in cash and prizes and raised over $30,000 for local charities.
The current world's largest contest is held on Gull Lake, north of Brainerd, MN, in January of each year. The contest has over 15,000 anglers and drills over 20,000 holes for the contest.
In Finland, ice fishing contests have been marred by repeated scandals, where both contestants and organizers have been caught cheating. Contestants have smuggled previously caught and frozen fish with them. Organizers have awarded the prizes to shills, not really participating in the competition, to avoid paying prizes.

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