Article: Making his day count Charities benefit despite number falling short

Excelsior, Minn. -- Jeff Kolodzinski lifts his cane pole and swings home a quivering, iridescent payload.

One.

The time is 7:40 a.m. Friday. The 6-inch bluegill comes to hand and is quickly unhooked and returned to the waters of Lake Minnetonka.

It's the first of what Kolodzinski and an assembled crew of charity workers and volunteers hopes will be many, many more.

As the workday gets in gear in greater Minneapolis, Kolodzinski, too, is on task.

And when he says he's going to spend the day fishing, he means it.

Twenty-four hours. One thousand, four hundred and forty minutes.

Or to measure it another way, about 1,700 fish, give or take. At least that's his goal.

The 39-year-old Kolodzinski, ...

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