00:00 We are very sad to announce that college anglers Heckman and Ely of Purdue University dies
00:05 in car accident.
00:06 For his last video, watch the video till end.
00:09 The college angling community and larger fishing community are mourning the loss of two young
00:13 college anglers, Travis Ely of Nashville, Indiana and Hunter Heckman of West Lafayette,
00:19 Indiana, who was only a freshman at the University of Purdue after the duo perished in a car
00:24 accident Sunday night, October 15, 2023.
00:28 The members of the Purdue University Base Fishing Team were driving home from the Association
00:33 of College Anglers Collegiate Base Fishing Series event on Lake Dardanelle in Roselleville,
00:39 Arkansas when the accident occurred.
00:41 It's always tough when someone passes so sudden and unexpected, but this one was really tearing
00:46 up the college angling community on Monday as the tournament fishing crowd in college
00:50 is like a giant brotherhood.
00:52 And any loss of a young person just getting started on their own personal journey in life
00:56 is tragic.
00:57 Ely and Heckman competed in the Collegiate Base Fishing Series Saturday and Sunday and
01:02 ended up finishing a very respectable 35th place finish out of 248 boats at the AFTCO
01:10 Open on Lake Dardanelle.
01:11 Both anglers were loved by the Purdue University community, their base fishing teammates and
01:16 the greater college angling community.
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