earlysecond
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I have been reading the fishing report section of this board for years and just recently got "hooked" on the discussion boards. Another Hollidaysburg grad and Penn State guy here. I graduated highschool in '85 and college in '90. It is a small world and is made smaller by the internet. I ended up living in Altoona. My father originally taught me all that he knew about fishing and I have always been a fisherman at heart. It seems that the pressures and distractions of life have often interfered with my ability to go fishing but never diminished my love of the sport.
When I was in college I met a friend who taught me to stream fish. Before that time, in my early teens, I had never drifted anything in any stream, creek, or river. I never really got as good as my new friend at trout fishing but I did learn to love the sport even more.
I bought my first boat with my first commission check from my first real sales job. My new wife and I used it a good bit, primarily at Glendale as we camped there as a newly married couple. I found that my favorite fish to chase around was crappie, whole livewells full at times. Other times when we were not keeping them we were still counting them. . .over a hundred a night, all small but fun none the less.
Fast forward to the next phase of life. With young children, it is really hard to get away, sometimes it is even more painful to try to take them all of the time. I sold the boat for a new hobby and completly restored the muscle car of my dreams. During this time I did not even wet a line for 2 years. Thank goodness I never sold my rods or the contents of my first boat. After the car was done I decided that my son would enjoy some of the crappie fishing that I had done when he was a baby who was not eligable for the trips. He was 9 yrs old at the time and me and some friends with boats set him on prespawn crappies at Sayers. He then told me that he did not like the sports car as much as the boat!! Obviously, young boys are pretty fickle with what they do like BUT that was a good excuse to get a new rig and I did. I bought and fully finished a fishing/duck hunting boat in the style that I always wanted. . .full camo yet fully finished, the biggest modified jon boat I could find on the north east coast.
About the time I was finishing the boat I became friends with the guy who had built the engine for my sports car project. It turns out that he is an avid fisherman and specilized in a species that always eluded me. . .walleyes! He is primarily a river wading fisherman so I needed some new equiptment. With my new buddy's help I not only caught walleyes nearly every weekend for the next couple of years (excluding the dog days of summer and the coldest part of winter) but I learned about the big rainbows (aka steelhead) that lurked in the streams up north. Well the friendship that was built around car engines and the prospects of catching legal sized walleyes continues to this day and hopefully future forward. It has been a pleasure to mix new and old friends on a couple of outings.
I typically fish the waters of the Juniata, Raystown branch and to a lesser extent the Little J all with live bait and a 9'6" steelhead rod. My boat is noticable on a lake as the whole thing is lit (including bow marker lights) with brite LED's, some people think that my boat, on the water, at night resembles a UFO! This year I am thinking of wading less and targeting crappie, perch and walleyes on Lake Raystown. I need to learn to fish that huge, twisty piece of water and I have a strong desire to do so! If you see me and my crew say HI!
I have been richly blessed in many ways. Good family, good career, good friends but never enough time to fish as much I would otherwise. I hope to learn as much from many new "virtual" friends on this community.
If you graduated from H-burg in the early to mid 80's then you will likely remember me. . .I was always the tallest and biggest guy in the school but had NO athletic ability.
My name is Brent Brunner and I have not been fishing for 96 hours!
Regards
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