The 31st annual Cranberry Portage Trout Challenge is coming up Saturday and Sunday on Big Athapap. The committee’s Wade Roberts says they have another list of great prizes this year noting the first place prize is guaranteed at 5 thousand dollars, second place 25 hundred and third place is 2 thousand based on a total of 8 fish entry so total length and then there’s a lot of hidden prizes and there’s prizes up to 10th place depending on the number of boats that come in and the hidden prizes that are in there if you just partake without even catching fish you have the opportunity to win a little bit of cash.
You can enter by using the Fish Donkey app, go to the Cranberry Portage Trout Challenge Facebook page, email troutchallenge@gmail.com or in person Friday night. The boat parade is Friday night at 7 followed by a rules meeting at 7:30 and then a penny parade, silent auction and refreshments with fishing on Saturday and Sunday starting at 8 am.
