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Article: Thrills, Chills, Cold Cash Are Derby's Lure for Ice Anglers; Fish Tales Don't Tip Scales for New Hampshire Contest Judges
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 8, 1999
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At 10 p.m. Saturday, the thick cold darkness of frozen Lake
Winnipesaukee breaks only at the northernmost tip of Meredith Bay.
Along shore, Tom Fairbrother sits inside a trailer beside a thermos
of coffee. No books or magazines or television in sight. Nothing to
distract the man or his mission.
Fairbrother's attention is fixed on the white makeshift scoreboard
out back. Hanging there, under a dozen spotlights, are his charges:
50 frozen fish that are the bounty from day one of New England's
richest ice-fishing contest.
Perch, pickerel, cusk and trout glint gray and blue, streaked pink
by blood and with frosted marble eyes, hang from the scoreboard in
order of weight, the heaviest at the top. ...