A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
PJ Burns and the champion Brandon Palaniuk.
PJ Burns and Dave Mercer from facts of fishing.
PJ Burns and Johnathan Vandam. All photos courtesy of PJ Burns.
Brandon Palaniuk from Idaho won the St. Lawrence River Showdown.
You know him from Kids For Fishing, an event PJ organizes that comes along every spring and allows dozens of kids to learn about fishing and safety. Well, over the weekend PJ took his fishing skills, and probably some of his policing skills, and officiated the St. Lawrence River Showdown in Waddington as part of the Bassmasters Elite Series. PJ was what is called a Marshall. For three days he was in boats with competitors to make sure there was no funny business. PJ signed up for this duty in November.
On day one he was in a boat with Ott Dafoe, day two he spent with Scott Rook and he was lucky enough to get to be a part of day three and sat with Koto Kiriyama.
The last day of the tournament only saw 12 boats in the water. And though he was not lucky enough to get to officiate again, he did manage to stick around and get some pictures with the champion and some other famous fishermen.
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