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02-25-2009, 06:47 AM #1
Breaking Ice Fishing News
Fishing contest winner allegedly tells a whopper
Private investigators believe Wisconsin man smuggled in the winning fish
SOMERSET, Wis. - Lee Shehow had a whopper of a fish tale.
Shehow, of New Richmond, claimed to have won Saturday's ice fishing contest on Bass Lake in Somerset after pulling up a northern pike weighing 2.42 pounds.
TV cameras were rolling when he was asked what he would do with the grand prize, a $27,000 Dodge pickup truck. He replied: "Drive it like it's stolen."
But private investigators working for the tournament suspected the winning fish was smuggled in.
Under contest rules, the winner was offered the chance Sunday to take a lie detector test and refused, organizer John Montpetit said, and that meant the prize had to go Tuesday to the runner-up, Monica Slimmer, of La Crosse, who caught a northern pike weighing 1.72 pounds.
Shehow denied cheating when interviewed by KARE-TV of Minneapolis-St. Paul. He said he caught the fish fairly and only gave up the prize because he didn't want to cause bad publicity for the Somerset Youth Athletic Association, which had put on the tournament as a fundraiser.
No phone listing could be found for Shehow when The Associated Press tried to reach him Tuesday night for further comment
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02-25-2009 06:47 AM # ADS
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02-25-2009, 10:06 AM #2
How does one win a contest with a northern pike of only 2.4 lbs???
...And why would anyone smuggle one in that was so small?
Something FISHY is going on there...Lost On A Hill
Utah Water Log
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02-25-2009, 12:42 PM #3
2.4 pounds? not kilos? or maybe 24 pounds? beech's baby was bigger than that. and how could you know that 2.4 pounds would be a winner? were they fishing in a stocked, frozen pond at the sportsman show? just doesn't make any sense.
But if I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.
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02-25-2009, 01:03 PM #4Originally Posted by LOAH
I'm actually in WI right now and am going to ask around, hehe.Your safety is not my responsibility.
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