![]() "Then the second day, I had the biggest bag of the day out of everyone and jumped to 10th place, so that was pretty cool.”īy the third tournament this summer - not long after his Billings West High graduation - McKeever moved all the way to No. “First day, I didn’t do very good - I was in 70th place," McKeever said of his initial tournament in Chamberlain, South Dakota. Early on, he was met with more than a few sighs from pros who thought they'd just been paired up with a kid still wet behind the ears. McKeever is one of the youngest co-anglers on the National Walleye Tour. "I said, ‘Ok, we’re doing all of them.’ So we signed up for all of them, and here we are." I’m doing all of them or none of them because I’m going to the championship and you can’t qualify for the championship unless you do all of them.’" "He said, ‘I don’t know if you’re ready for that.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I am.’” "Dad, I want to do the pro circuit," McKeever asked. Last year, after 15 years of fishing, the 18-year-old decided he was ready for the next step, so he approached dad with an idea. McKeever makes almost everyone in the country feel that way. He catches the first fish, he catches the last fish, and I’m trying to figure out what to do in between.” "I don’t think I’ve out-fished him in the last five years. “I knew at an early age it was a passion for him, but I had no clue it would turn into this," said dad Ty Dahlberg. "Probably when I was two or three years old at my grandpa’s pond in Red Lodge," Dahlberg said of his first time. ![]() But he’s also been working on it since he could walk. ![]() He’s got a natural talent for it, no doubt. BILLINGS - At first glance, it may look like fishing just comes easy to McKeever Dahlberg.
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