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Fishing with World Series winning Phillies
Shortstop Eric Bruntlett
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Date: |
2/08/09 |
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Clear Lake,
California |
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Event Dates: |
Feb 7th,
2009 |
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Reviewer: |
Team TT |
Introduction:
Eric
Bruntlett, you have just won the world series, what are you going to do? Go
fishing! When he isn’t playing ball 2008 World Series winning player Eric
Bruntlett loves to fish, and with just seven days before reporting to spring
training the team at TT go fishing with Eric at his favorite location….Clear
Lake.
Zander pairs up with Professional
Baseball player Eric Bruntlett for a day of fishing on Clear Lake
About Eric Bruntlett:
If you’re a Phillies fan then Eric needs no introduction, he is known for his
defensive versatility and has played a number of positions including second
base, leftfield, and shortstop. He was born in Lafayette Indiana and made his
way to the West coast when he played baseball at Stanford University while
pursuing a degree in Economics. He helped the Stanford Cardinal in three
appearances in the College World Series and Eric was named to the NCAA Regional
All-Tournament team twice.
Eric was a big part of the World
Series win for the Phillies and had some serious clutch hits, but today he had
on his mind were fish
After hitting .342 for
Stanford he was selected by the Houston Astros in the 2000 amateur draft, and
made his way through the minors until he was called up to the majors on June 27th,
2003. He played with the Astros through 2007 when he was traded to the
Philadelphia Phillies.
Eric gets a fish with a shakey
head rig early in the freezing morning
He had a quality 2008 year
with the Phillies hitting .217 with 46 hits, 2 home runs, and 15 RBIs but it was
during the post season where he really made his biggest mark on the team by
hitting a home run in Game 2 followed by a game winning run in Game 3 of the
World Series and topping it all off by scoring the series clinching run in Game
5 which served up the first World Series win for the Phillies since 1980 and
their second overall.
Eric proved to be quite an angler
(Leo and the rest of the TT crew can be seen in the fog in the back)
Let’s Play Ball:
So why fish with Eric Bruntlett? We jumped at the opportunity to fish with Eric
as he has a passion for fishing, and we looked forward to seeing how a world
class athlete from another sport approached angling, not to mention he is also
an avid reader of the site. In fact it was after reading a Kistler Helium review
five years ago that he went out and purchased a Helium LTA, which remains his
favorite rod to date.
Finally the fog burns off!
Our day started at 2:30AM
when we head up north across the Golden Gate to meet up with Tom “Leo” Leogrande,
a member of our contributing editor staff and also member of the
MonsterFishing Tackle.com
team. We then continued our trek up to Clear Lake with his Legend boat in tow.
The plan was simple, first meet Eric Bruntlett at the launch ramp at Clear Lake,
then proceed to catch fish and break Leo’s 2009 jinx of being not catching a
fish yet. Easy right? Well, as always it proved easier said than done.
With the fog behind us we get to
fishing ripbaits
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