 Not even near zero temperatures could keep anglers off the ice for this year's Brainer JC's ice fishing extravaganza. Nearly 9,000 people were on the frozen Gull Lake Saturday hoping to reel in the catch of the day. Over the course of the three-hour tournament 836 fish were weighed with the top 150 going home with prizes. It's the Super Bowl of ice fishing I guess you could say. I call it the eighth one or the world. I mean if you haven't seen this you got to see it. I'm kind of curious to see what it's gonna take. I might just take a guess. Maybe it's gonna be a four pound fish. Maybe a walleye. It'd be cool to see a walleye win it again this year. Walleye did dominate the top of the leaderboard but first place went to Gary Krieger who reeled in a northern pike wing and at 5.2 pounds. For his first place finish Krieger had the choice of a new Ford or GMC from Mills Automotive Group. Only four fish caught at the extravaganza weighed over two pounds including Daryl Smith's second place walleye weighing in at 2.92 pounds. Dumb luck and I've always been lucky fishing. I was talking to the neighbors I looked and the bobber was down and went over there and I saw it bob a couple times and just set the hook and pulled it up. Before I set the hook he felt pretty good taking the line out. Once I got him out I thought it was gonna be full to the top anyway. Anthony Scott will have more coverage of the JC's ice fishing extravaganza on tomorrow's Northwood's adventure. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.