But the responsibility Brandon feels to compete as best as possible doesn’t even stop there.
CAMERAMAN KEPT ROLLING PROFESSIONAL
With Brandon’s professional fishing career being the main source of income for he, Tiffanie, now baby Kora and cameraman Kyle, there was a lot riding on their decision to fish or not to fish at Pickwick Lake, including a $19,000 check Brandon picked up for his seventh-place finish at Pickwick.
CAMERAMAN KEPT ROLLING SERIES
With just three Elite Series events remaining, team Palaniuk holds a pretty good lead in this $100,000 race - one he’d be in fifth place in had the Palaniuks chosen to play it safe and Brandon forgone the event. That moment may come in a couple months on a stage in La Crosse, Wis., by way of Brandon’s second Angler of the Year title. But at some point, there will be a moment in our lives where we look back and realize why it all happened the way it did.” “I believe that everything happens for a reason, even if we don’t see it in the exact moment. And though they didn’t make it in time for the delivery, Kora and Tiffanie have no doubt been within eyesight of Brandon the majority of the time since. And that’s definitely the longest straight stretch I’ve ever done.”īrandon and Kyle did all they could to get back home in time, rolling on about five hours sleep from the time they got up well before daylight on Championship Sunday till the time they rolled back into town Tuesday morning. But that’s the kind of team player he is. I have to give credit to Kyle, he’s never driven like that before. “We ended up driving 28 hours straight from St Louis to the hospital. That’s when all of a sudden, things started to happen.” We slept for five hours and got back on the road and just kept driving. “We got north of St Louis and pulled over at like midnight. With the camper packed and on the tail end of a productive but grueling week on the water, Brandon and his cameraman Kyle Vandever (who’s more like a brother at this point) hit the road with both rigs and set out on the 31-hour haul back home. So we both thought about it and talked about it and ended up making the decision that Kyle and I would just take off and drive.” I asked how she was feeling, if anything was really happening. “I called her when I walked off stage Sunday. So Brandon kept his head down and did his best to focus on the task at hand, inevitably finishing the event in seventh in the tournament and retaining his AOY lead. But the calls kept coming throughout the week with no real news to report from Rathdrum, Idaho, where the Palaniuks live. Thus, the timing of Kora’s birth was almost certainly going to have some major implications on the AOY race.
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