The first annual Shake Off the Blues ice fishing challenge takes place February 13 to March 7 and there’s as much as $8,000 in prize money to be won for those lucky enough to catch the biggest kokanee, lake trout, brook trout and rainbow trout in the north.

This is a COVID-friendly event so when people catch a fish they use an app to send the information to the organizers of Shake Off the Blues event, which offers a real-time leaderboard to see who caught what when and how big theirs has to be to beat it.