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A very eventful week is coming to an end. Team Michigan does their job at the TBF Northern Divisional Championship putting almost 500 pounds on the board for an 86 pound win over 2nd place Indiana. Michigan TBF member Derek Cummings wins the whole thing with over 63 pounds. Six of the top 11 anglers in the final standings are from the Michigan team - pretty good considering there are 6 states / teams.

(L to R) Front Row: Steve Griffen, Jeff Cox, Mark Modrak, 
Derek Cummings, Leo Reiter, Dan Kimmel Back Row: President
/2nd Alt Dennis Beltz, Jon Jezierski, Rob Roberts, Wayne 
Macklin, Eric Peck, Teddy Bradley, John Serniak (not 
pictured: team alternate Tom Kiefer)
(Photo by Scott Ellison/FLW Outdoors)

Overall, we had really good weather on St. Clair for a multi-day tournament that actually ran 6 days total. Lake Erie was worse... but there should be no surprise there... it's Erie.

The last day we had more wind, a rougher morning ride and rain most of the day, but surprisingly (not the norm), the rain stopped and the weigh in was dry and even a little sunny. Made for a much nicer weigh in and awards ceremony.

I was happier at the point. I had a much nicer day Friday, the final day of the tournament, with a very nice partner - James Berry from Indiana. Day 2 was not very fun for a number of reasons ending with not getting a limit even though I helped my nonboater get almost 17 pounds off the same spots.

An odd thing happened at the end of the day gas station boat refill stop. As I was dwelling on what I had not enjoyed about that day, full of myself and my 'problems' a complete stranger walked by and with a big smile on his face told me, "man, you are living the good life!" That was another one of those moments that makes you think about coincidence and what is truly important (for not the last time of this week as you have read yesterday). It did not cure me totally of my problems - Wayne Carpenter's letting me vent later that evening and then my next day with James did that, but it was a pretty good start.

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