College sophomore is juggling books and bass tournaments

Collin Tate is enjoying his first year with the Ragin’ Cajuns Fishing Team

Collin Tate got a big confidence boost the first time he fished as a collegiate bass angler for the University of Louisiana-Lafayette’s Ragin’ Cajuns Fishing Team.

After Tate graduated from Rayne High School, where he was on the fishing team all four years, he attended LSU-Eunice. He didn’t fish as a freshman. Going into his sophomore year, he enrolled at ULL, where Baylen Guy was jumpstarting the fishing team as president with the help of Vice President Noah Deshotel.

Tate and his partner from his senior year in high school, Will Guidry, teamed up for the first Louisiana B.A.S.S. Nation College tournament of the season Nov. 22 at the Calcasieu River. The Southeastern Louisiana University Fishing Team’s Champ Morales and Grayson Aguillard won the tournament with a 12.375-pound limit, including the day’s biggest bass, a 6.63-pounder…

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