BassPack holds club tournament

N.C. State's club bass fishing team, BassPack, was on the lake Saturday hosting a local tournament for BassPack club members. The tournament was a qualifying event for future national tournaments and was held at Falls Lake.

Club president Jason Livingston and public relations ambassador Kyle Hodgins oversaw the event, taking in a few fish but not officially competing.

"We just kind of showed up [to hang] out," Hodgins said. "We weren't competing."

The two finished in fourth place in last spring's Virginia Tech Invitational at Smith Mountain Lake and now look to impart their knowledge on the rest of the bass fishing public at N.C. State. The club meets every other Wednesday in Kilgore 159 to discuss fishing strategies, technologies, and tournaments.

"It's always open," Livingston said. "It's a fraternal kind of thing but at the same time we're always interested in getting new people out because that's what the sport is all about."