Just a heads up for those thinking they can wait a bit to buy them. DON'T WAIT! The 20,000 tickets that they sell for this event/raffle sell very very very very quickly. You snooze you lose.
I think I heard they had like 4500 fisherpersons on the lake last year. Big thing is the weather on the day of the event that determines the actual attendance on the lake although with some of the nice fishing prizes that can be had, even the wimpiest of souls try to tough it out for the 2 and 1/2 hours of the tourney to land a fish for a prize. But yeah..it would be cool to find out how many on here fish the tourney or plan to.
Picked up a ticket (one is all I need) at Eagles in Bismarck, on Wednesday.
I have it all planned out. I'll go up there, stand around, not catch a fish, not win anything, gripe about the weather, swear I'm never doing it again, return. (repeat)
I have a buddy who won a generator a couple of years ago. We (he and I) are still clinging to the warmth of the win..