The team will have it’s first meeting of the school year.  The meeting will be held in Coach Albrecht’s room B313 BEFORE SCHOOL at 7:40am.   Please make sure you attend this meeting.   All team members wanting to purchase an angular jersey needs to bring a check for $35 made out to MHS fishing team.  We would like all members to get the new jersey in time to wear for the Charity tournament and Homecoming parade.  Please see your coaches for any questions.

The team will hold a short meeting on Tuesday May 18, 2010 after school.  We will be handing out a bunch of tackle to use for the summer.  Please try to make the short meeting.  We will meet in E301 after school.

In other news from Saturday May 15, 2010 assistant coach Paul Malone who has taken time to help out the team by taking members out to practice and also allowing the team to use his flat bottom boat had a great weekend. Paul won the FLW’s Bass Fishing League Great Lakes Division tournament out of LaCrosse Wisconsin. Team member Austin Paytash fished as a Co-Angler and just missed the top 50, finishing 52nd out of 144 .

Boater Paul Malone of Pleasant Valley, Iowa, won the May 15 BFL Great Lakes Division tournament on the Mississippi River to earn $4,830.

Malone makes grade on Mississippi River
Doty winning co-angler

15.May.2010

Boater Paul Malone of Pleasant Valley, Iowa, caught a five-bass limit weighing 18 pounds, 8 ounces Saturday to win $4,830 in the BFL Great Lakes Division tournament on the Mississippi River near La Crosse, Wis. He was swimming a jig through weed clumps under cloudy skies to sack his limit.

Rounding out the top 10 boaters:
2nd: Dan McGarry, Tomah, Wis., five bass, 15-13, $2,415
3rd: Steve Hedberg, La Crescent, Minn., five bass, 13-14, $1,609
4th: Dave Robel, Muscoda, Wis., five bass, 13-12, $2,127 (includes $1,000 Evinrude bonus)
5th: Justin Drljaca, Milwaukee, Wis., five bass, 13-11, $925
5th: Chris Maland, Ankeny, Iowa, five bass, 13-11, $925
7th: Jimmy Johnson, La Crosse, Wis., five bass, 13-8, $805
8th: Karen Savik, St. Louis Park, Minn., five bass, 13-5, $724
9th: Brian Fitzpatrick, La Crosse, Wis., five bass, 13, $644
10th: Greg Ginneberge, Iowa City, Iowa, five bass, 12-12, $563