![]() Everyone in town embraces the festival.”įamilies were able to enjoy various food trucks and carnival snacks at the midway, along with games and rides for children. They’re putting all this one for us and letting us move their cars out of the parking lot, but they do it for the festival because they embrace the festival. There aren’t many spots in town where you can put on this festival. “We’re thankful for (Burt Watson’s Chevrolet),” Swartz said. He met attendees that came from all over the state and the rubber duck race, which was a new addition to the festival last year, had doubled in the amount of participants this year.īurt Watson’s Chevrolet was the main gathering place for many attendees as the carnival, provided by Anderson Midways, the beer tent and the casino were set up in the dealership’s lot. Swartz said, despite the poor weather, the festival ran wonderfully. They were so excited…this is the biggest thing that happens in the town.” “We were setting up on Monday and Tuesday and people were stopping in. “It’s great, the whole town wakes up,” she said. ![]() Jacobs used to come to the festival to shop at the sales, and this was her first year actually holding a garage sale in Freeland. There were even periods of sunshine throughout the day, despite calls for rain all day long. Jacobs said Saturday was “better all around” as more people could come out to the garage sales. Swartz also said there were less garage sales than usual on Friday due to the rain, but that things picked back up on Saturday. “People were actually taking cover here (on Friday),” she said. Saginaw resident Jill Jacobs, who hosted a garage sale at her nephew’s house in Freeland, said Friday was bad for sales because of the weather and that the tent she had over her items saved her from having to cover everything with a tarp when it rained Many kept an eye on the sky throughout the festival as rainy weather on Friday had forced many garage sales to close for a part of the day. “My favorite part is seeing everybody and going shopping,” Lily Kelly said. The Midland family began selling items at the Walleye Festival last year, setting up their table in the Freeland Marketplace, a barn not far from Festival Park where many families came to fish.Īmanda Kelly said the family has attended the festival many times, particularly for the garage sales. Just down the road from where Zachmann was fishing, Amanda, Mike, Connor and Lily Kelly had set up shop selling items from their family business, Hammer and Hue Designs. “Every day is a good day if you’re out fishing, even if you don’t catch anything, because at least you’re alive.” “You never know when it’ll be your last fishing trip,” he said. In fact, he did die for 10 minutes before being resuscitated. He came simply to enjoy fishing, which he said is important to him after he nearly died of a heart attack last summer. Kris Zachmann, of Caro came to Freeland dressed in camouflage from head-to-toe to spend the day fishing on the Tittabawassee River. ![]() In addition to a two-day fishing tournament that began on April 29 - opening day for trout, inland walleye and Northern Pike season - the festival included a rubber duck race, community wide garage sales, a car show, a carnival midway, a parade, a casino and various tournaments including cornhole and beer pong. The festival, which ran from Thursday through Sunday, drew upwards of 5,000 people according to Walleye Festival Committee Chairman Jason Swartz.
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