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A local duo, and two childhood friends, have reeled in high school fishing’s top crown for Central High School.
Central High School students, Gerald Brumbaugh and Hunter Klotz, brought a three-bass limit to the scale weighing nine pounds, nine ounces to win the 2021 High School Fishing National Championship last week in South Carolina, according to Major League Fishing.
The championship was held on Lake Hartwell in Anderson last week.
Officials say the Central’s three-day total of nine bass totaling 28-13 gave them the win by a one-pound, 14-ounce margin.
Brumbaugh and Klotz won $10,000, berths as Strike King co-anglers in the Toyota Series Championship event and multiple scholarship offers from colleges with fishing teams.
2021 U.S. Army High School Fishing National Championship & World Finals
Jun. 30 – Jul. 3
Anderson Convention & Visitors Bureau
The first 25 high school teams that enter each U.S. Army High School Fishing presented by Favorite Fishing tournament will receive a free Favorite Fishing package, including one Favorite Fishing casting rod and reel, one Favorite Fishing spinning rod and reel, six packs of Googan Baits and two Favorite Fishing hats, a total package value of $230. Most tournaments will also be hosted by a Bass Pro Tour angler or Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit angler, giving high school students the chance to meet the sport’s top pros. As an added bonus, the winning team at each tournament will receive a guided fishing trip with their pro angler host.
When members of Anderson County Council expressed a desire to have a better, more efficient way of communicating with their constituents, a new member of the staff stepped up to the plate to create the perfect platform: a smartphone app.
ACSC Gov, available for Apple and Google phones, was created by Matt Shoup, a former intern who joined the county staff full-time in October. Shoup said it was clear council “wanted to get information out to the public in a prompt and important manner.” Information can only move as fast as technology, he said. And, for quite some time, we may have been behind the ball on that in some regards.