NEWS &
NOTES
ReMeMbeRING GuIDO
W
hen I heard in March that
Guido Hibdon had passed
away, my mind drifted back to
a beautiful spring day in 1980.
I was a cub reporter for The Kansas
City Star, and one of my first assign-
ments was to cover the B.A.S.S. Missouri
Invitational at Lake of the Ozarks.
There, a great storyline fell into my
lap. A longtime guide at the lake entered
his first national B.A.S.S. tournament at
the urging of some of his clients, who
even helped pay his entry fee and lent
him a bass boat to compete. He went
out and dominated the event, fishing
some of the same spots he had fished
since he started guiding at age 13.
That was Guido’s start. And it was
mine, too. We became friends. He went
on to become one o