On Tuesday, Doug Peck, Jon Herrman and Rinnan Weekes — fish culturists with the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Adirondack Fish Hatchery — stocked the lake with 20 Atlantic salmon, brown trout and rainbow trout ranging from 2 to 6 years old and including one worth $800 for the club’s 40th Colby Classic Ice Fishing Derby this weekend.

The fish were stocked further out on the ice than normal because Nogales said they wanted to give people a better chance of catching them. The fish are worth big pay-outs. But they have to be caught on Saturday and Sunday between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. to be redeemed.

Among the groups of realtors, guides and sporting goods stores sponsoring fish, there are also several “garbologists.”

Nogales said Kevin Oddy with Oddy’s Trash Service gave him $100 to sponsor a fish and said he was challenging Daldon DeMarco of DeMarco Disposal to match him. He started telling everyone at the dump about this, so DeMarco found Nogales, gave him $200 and started telling everyone Oddy was being “cheap.”

DEC fish culturist Rinnan Weekes nets fish out of a tank. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

Darra Wenske of Duff’s Dumpsters got word of this, gave Nogales $250 and said Oddy and DeMarco were both cheap.

This year marks the Classic’s 40th anniversary. The event draws hundreds of anglers each year.

Contest details, rules and information can be found at tinyurl.com/233t4wrt and tinyurl.com/mr27633x.

DEC fish culturist Rinnan Weekes hands a fish off to culturist Jon Herrman. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

A tagged fish from the state’s Adirondack Fish Hatchery. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

State Department of Environmental Conservation fish culturist Jon Herrman drops a tagged salmon into Lake Colby on Tuesday, ahead of the 40th Colby Classic Ice Fishing Derby this weekend. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

A fish gets dropped in a hole in the ice on Lake Colby on Tuesday. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

A tagged fish from the state’s Adirondack Fish Hatchery. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)