Tony Roach file
• Roach, 41, lives in Moose Lake, Minn., with his wife, Sonja, and their son and daughter.
• The owner of Roach’s Guide Service, he is known for his angling expertise on Mille Lacs. But he and the half-dozen or so guides he works with also fish Gull and other Brainerd-area lakes, as well as Leech and Winnibigoshish lakes and surrounding waters.
• Roach started fishing with his dad, Mark, as a boy. The two fished their first tournament together on Mille Lacs when Tony was 13.
• Roach, who at one time intended to become a high school teacher, shifted directions and after graduating college took a job in construction management.
• All the while he continued to fish and compete in tournaments while guiding part-time. In 2006 he started guiding full-time.
• An avid bird hunter, Roach chases grouse and pheasants in the fall with his Labrador retriever.
