Crappie time.  Jeffrey Barber, right, reels in a Crappie from a pond at Wayzata Beach Sunday, April 1, 2012.  Barber, and his wife Shirlie, St. Louis Park, have been fishing in Lake Minnetonka for decades.  In 1981, Jefferey Barber won the Holiday-Johnson Crappie Contest by pulling in a one-pound, four-ounce specimen, and went home with a 10 HP Johnson boat motor for his efforts.
Mark Adamson, Minneapolis, begins to sort through his stringer full of freshly caught crappies, on the ground outside Maynard's restaurant in Excelsior, Saturday, April 21.  Adamson caught the gaggle of fish in the Narrows during the Lions Club Lake Minnetonka Crappie Fishing Contest.
The Barber's tackle box and minnows for bait rests on the dock of a pond at Wayzata Beach Sunday, April 1, 2012.
Emcee and official Lions Club Crappie Fishing Contest weigh-in Grand Poobah Mark Schutz, left, of Full Throttle Fishing in Brooklyn Park, keeps the crowd outside Maynard's restaurant informed while volunteer Sam Bissen, 12, drop a fish onto the scale Saturday, April 21, in Excelsior.
Mark Meyer, Mound, displays the 3rd Place, .96-pound crappie he pulled out of Lafayette Bay on Lake Minnetonka during last Saturday's 2012 Lions Club Crappie Fishing Contest.  Meyer had just weighed his catch in a tent outside Maynard's restaurant in Excelsior.  The contest winner was Chad Carruthers, with a 1.13-pound lunker.
10 year old Mound resident Jack Dioszeghy kisses his .76-pound crappie in the weigh-in tent at Maynard's restaurant in Excelsior during the 2012 Lions Club Lake Minnetonka Crappie Fishing Contest Saturday, April 21, 2012.  Dioszeghy's catch was the heaviest fish, at the time of his weigh-in, for the 14-and-under class competition.  The kids winner was Brandon Ballinger with a .95-pound crappie.
Outgoing Hopkins Raspberry Festival Queen Kariss Mathiason photographs a sunfish she caught off the fishing pier at Shady Oak Lake in Minnetonka Wednesday, July 11, 2012.  Queen Karissa joined dozens of anglers for the Laun E. Anderson Kids Fishing Contest as part of the myriad of activities for young and old celebrating the annual Hopkins Raspberry Festival.
2011-2012 Raspberry Festival Junior Queen Nicolette Stabno, wearing her crown, isn't enthralled by her fishing ability or the big sunfish on the end of her line during the Laun E. Anderson Kids Fishing Contest on Shady Oak Lake in Minnetonka Wednesday, July 11, 2012.
Keelin Samson-Garry, 7, holds a sunfish he caught off of the fishing pier on Shady Oak Lake in Minnetonka Wednesday, July 11, 2012.  Keelin joined dozens of young anglers for the Laun E. Anderson Kids Fishing Contest as part of the myriad of activities for young and old celebrating the annual Hopkins Raspberry Festival.
Crappie time. Jeffrey Barber, right, reels in a Crappie from a pond at Wayzata Beach Sunday, April 1, 2012. Barber, and his wife Shirlie, St. Louis Park, have been fishing in Lake Minnetonka for decades. In 1981, Jefferey Barber won the Holiday-Johnson Crappie Contest by pulling in a one-pound, four-ounce specimen, and went home with a 10 HP Johnson boat motor for his efforts.
Crappie time.  Jeffrey Barber, right, reels in a Crappie from a pond at Wayzata Beach Sunday, April 1, 2012.  Barber, and his wife Shirlie, St. Louis Park, have been fishing in Lake Minnetonka for decades.  In 1981, Jefferey Barber won the Holiday-Johnson Crappie Contest by pulling in a one-pound, four-ounce specimen, and went home with a 10 HP Johnson boat motor for his efforts.
Crappie time. Jeffrey Barber, right, reels in a Crappie from a pond at Wayzata Beach Sunday, April 1, 2012. Barber, and his wife Shirlie, St. Louis Park, have been fishing in Lake Minnetonka for decades. In 1981, Jefferey Barber won the Holiday-Johnson Crappie Contest by pulling in a one-pound, four-ounce specimen, and went home with a 10 HP Johnson boat motor for his efforts.
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