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$2,000 grand-prize brook trout added to Roxbury Pond for Saturday’s derby
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Mexico Lions Club organizers of the Larry Mercier Memorial 34th annual Ice Fishing Derby placed this tagged 16- to 18-inch brook trout weighing 2 pounds into Roxbury Pond early Thursday afternoon. The fish was purchased from the Palermo Rearing Station in Palermo and is worth $2,000 if caught between 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. during the derby Saturday, Feb. 16.
Mexico Lions Club member Michael Worthley, left, of Roxbury prepares to drill through ice 2 feet thick on Roxbury Pond early Thursday afternoon to put in the tagged brook trout worth $2,000 if caught between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16. The fish is part of the 34th annual Ice Fishing Derby. Watching in the background are Rick Van Amburg, and Worthley’s 3-year-old grandson Wyatt Gordon, both of Roxbury.
Three-year-old Wyatt Gordon of Roxbury returns to his grandfather Michael Worthley after watching as Roxbury road contractor Roy Howes of Andover uses a bucket loader to remove snow Thursday afternoon from the Roxbury Pond Boat Launch. Howes was making room in the lot and along the roadside for hundreds of people expected to participate Saturday in the Mexico Lions Club’s 31st annual Ice Fishing Derby.
Wind off Roxbury Pond early Thursday afternoon blows the tassels of 3-year-old Wyatt Gordon’s hat and colors his cheeks and nose. Gordon, the son of Peter and Deanna Gordon of Roxbury, rode out on the lake with his grandfather, Michael Worthley, Roland Patneaude and Rick Van Amburg, all of Roxbury, to watch the Mexico Lions Club members add a large brook trout to the pond for Saturday’s ice fishing derby.
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