NORWAY – Some local youths will be going to conservation camp this summer as the result of a good turnout at the annual Norway-Paris Fish and Game Association Ice Fishing Derby.
Association member Jim Alberi said Tuesday that about 1,500 derby tickets were sold over the weekend.
A $1 donation was requested for each ticket, and the majority of the proceeds will be used to send young people to Conservation Camp through the Maine Conservation School at Bryant Pond, Alberi said.
“We usually send about 10 kids to conservation camp,” he said.
Other fund-raisers held by the association throughout the year help foot the bill. Last year, the camp cost $400 per student, Alberi said.
In the meantime, some young people on Saturday and Sunday got the more immediate satisfaction of winning prizes at the fishing derby.
Carrie Cressy, 10, of Fryeburg, took home a $50 prize for the largest brown trout caught during the derby, and also won junior’s trophies for catches in the bass and pickerel categories. Troy Harps of Lisbon took home $50 for catching the largest bass, which also happened to be the biggest overall catch of the day.
His fish weighed 5 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 20.5 inches long.
Other winners include Steve Harrington, Dan Mosley, Greg Martin and Tyler Leonard.
Consolation prizes also are a part of the annual fishing derby, and the top prize this year went to Matt Truman, who won a fishing trip for two with association member Fern Bosse.
Gift certificates, an L.L. Bean fly-fishing outfit and four tickets to the NASCAR race in Loudon, N.H., also were among the prizes given away.
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