Wintercade Ice Fishing Contest to be Held at the Litchfield Fire Hall Parking Lot
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Due to the bad ice conditions on Lake Ripley, the 14th annual Wintercade Ice Fishing Contest will be held at the Litchfield Fire Hall parking lot – under the water tower – on February 10th from 1-to-3 p.m. The event was held in that same location last year.
Daniel Lease says with the mild weather we’ve been having, it’s just not safe to try to have the ice fishing contest on the lake. He says they will have a ticket drop-off on west 2nd Street that morning beginning at 10 a.m. and the first 90 vehicles will receive a dozen Sparboe eggs.
Lease says there will be lots of door prizes for both adults and kids and if you don’t want to stand in the parking lot, you can listen to KLFD to hear if you won a prize and there will be prize runners delivering prizes to people who are listening at the American Legion, Muddy Cow or the Litchfield Eagles Club that afternoon.
Lease says they will be drawing for the fishing category cash prizes near the end of the event, and for those, you will need to be at the parking lot, and there will also be a cash prize drawing, and the drawing for the top prize – a Bobcat UTV from Farm Rite Equipment. He says 1500 tickets were sold this year for Wintercade, and it has grown steadily since the first year when Bruce Cottington bought up the leftover tickets to make sure they met their goal.
Lease says Wintercade generated $15,000 last year which was given back to the community – half to veterans organizations and half to other organizations. He says in the first 13 years, they have given back a total of $154,000 to the community, and he’d like to thank all of their sponsors and donors and those who buy tickets and keep the program going.
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