Andrew Price of Clyde proudly watches his daughter, Rowan hold up her bluegill in the Skipper Bud’s Fishing Derby at the Walleye Festival on Sunday.

Christian Meyer and Jacob Ryf of the Skipper Bud’s Fishing Derby measure the bass, bluegills and catfish caught by the hundreds of boys and girls in during the annual fish-a-thon on Derby Pond at the Walleye Festival on Sunday. Silas, 12, almost hit the 12-inch mark with his largemouth bass as his mother, Natalie Hindman of Marion, Ohio, watches. (Photos by D’Arcy Patrick Egan)