Shane Hildebrandt

Well I have had a hectic 2 weeks with fishing 5 tourneys and also having my daughters benefit.

I fished my first tourney on Thursday night with the Bad Bass Boys Club on East and West Rush Lake, MN, I didn't manage to get any fish to the boat but my partner stuck a couple of them to keep us going. Then it was off to Red Cedar Lake, WI, were my partner and I managed to get into some fish, all of mine where too short of the 14" size minimum, but he did manage a couple of smallies and also a couple of largies, we eaked out a 3rd place. then on sunday we headed to Forest Lake, MN and I fished there, the dock bite was going pretty good, we managed 5 fish and finished 4th place.

Then I headed back out to my next Thursday night tourney, we fished North and South center and managed 2 fish again, we didn't finish dead last, but we where pretty close. I am hoping that we can pick it up this week on coon lake.

Then yesterday we had a tourney out on Knife Lake, MN, we did pretty good, every boat had a nice bag and there was less than one pound that seperated 2nd place to 7th place. there was some nice fish caught and most everyone had over a 2 1/2 pound average.

For my duaghters benefit, we had alot of people show up, friends and family came and gathered to see my daughter, the million dallor miracle child run around and make people smile. We had alot of great door prizes and silent auction items to bid on, not sure on the amount of money that was raised for her medical bills but I am sure every little bit will help. I did spend some time in the dunk tank, that was cold because the high for that day was only 58 degrees and windy out. Hunters Inn up in East Bethel came through and was nice to work with a place that helped us put this together, even one of the owners got into the dunk tank to help as well. Thanks JR.

Now comming up this week, I have a Thursday night Tourney on Coon Lake, MN and I have to get ready to go to Pokegema up by Grand Rapids. I am hoping that we can find someone to watch the kids for me and Teresa so we can go and get away for the weekend and just have some fun fishing and hang out together.

well I am going to sign off for now, I will come back and fill you all in after Coon Lake.

Thanks

Shane