Ice fishing winner has a story to tell

Dan Gorski won the KBM ice fishing tournament Saturday, with the biggest fish and the biggest fish tale.

It's a whopper. The story, not the fish, which weighed in at 2.09 pounds.

Allegedly, Gorski wasn't paying attention when the fish decided to bite, and the darn thing ended up pulling his pole through the hole in the ice at Carlton's Chub Lake. After borrowing a pole from someone else, Gorski started fishing around for his lost fishing pole. After pulling up a lot of weeds, he hooked a line and pulled up the lost pole. And finally, after reeling in his line, Gorski got the fish too, still attached.

"It turned out to be the biggest fish," said Bruce Matusak, one of the organizers.

Gorski won an auger and a half-day fishing excursion on Lake Superior with Team Crush Outdoors. All the prizes were provided by Outdoor Advantage and Marine General.