Dylan Jackson (left), Darrell Pease and John Teare of the VCU Bass Fishing Team prepare for competition at Osborne Park and Boat Landing in Henrico County, Virginia. VCU’s team hosted last month’s Bassmaster College Series Eastern Conference Regional, which brought 75 teams of collegiate anglers to the James River for the tournament. If you didn’t know VCU has a bass fishing team, you’re not alone. “When we walk around on campus, or we’re doing volunteer work, everybody is like, ‘Bass team?’ They don’t know what a bass team is,” says Teare, club president and a senior environmental studies major in VCU Life Sciences. The bass team’s anglers compete in multiday intercollegiate fishing tournaments up and down the East Coast, and with support from faculty sponsor Jeffrey Lodge, director of information systems at VCU’s School of Allied Health Professions, the student organization has netted about 20 members since casting its line in 2012. Photo by Pat Kane, University Public Affairs