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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The "World's Original Ice Fishing Contest" will return to the St. Paul Winter Carnival this year, if Mother Nature cooperates.
The event once drew up to 10,000 people to White Bear Lake for a cold day of fishing and prizes, and a chance to be listed on the contest's traveling trophy.
However, the contest was shut down in 1982. But now a fishing-contest organizer from Wisconsin plans to resurrect the White Bear event as part of the 2010 carnival.
He's David Praschak, a teacher and a coordinator of the Bass Lake Ice Fishing Contest in Somerset, Wis.
About a year ago he approached carnival organizers about bringing the contest back, and they bit.
Praschak wants to hold the event Jan. 30, toward the end of the carnival's run, to have the best chance for thick ice.
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