Nine-year-old Grand Forks resident Noah Dalla Lana reeled in top prize in the Youth Fishing Award at the BC Wildlife Federation last week in Fort St. John.

The young angler also won another award for catching a 13-pound, one-ounce pike.

Dalla Lana said that he first thought the prize fishsa国际传媒檚 bite was just a rock snag.

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He thought that his favourite spinner lure had caught on the rocks where he was casting.

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Dalla Lana said he spent the next 10 minutes sa国际传媒渇ighting [the] biggest freshwater fish of my life.sa国际传媒�

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