How I did bassmaster

I came across this project as a similar angle to a story that I had seen in my hometown after a bowl game or an NCAA regional tournament. I found out from the Post-Standard that the fishing tournament was running from Tuesday to Sunday and the anglers came in Tuesday for Practice rounds. The news would always do a story about projected economical impact the event would have to the city. The Bassmaster Memorial is one of the major fishing tournaments in the United States and I was curious as to the economical impact it would have if any for city businesses. My first contact was Casey Davis of the Convention Bureau after a quick google search lead me to the visitors bureau website. She gave me the number to David Holder, who is the President of the Bureau. Mr. Holder and I spoke briefly and then he said he would call me back shortly. Around an hour later, and an hour before the newscast, he called and gave me specific information as to projected cost and what businesses would be impacted. It would have been the third anchor act that I would do for the newscast, but since I did not have enough time to do that one for an anchor act I turned it into a reader due to the fact that we needed more stories for a newscast anyway.
Fishing caught my interest because of the personal angle with my grandpa teaching me how to fish at a young age. In addition, I was aware of fishing tournaments but no fishing tournaments on a large scale such as the one at Onondaga Lake. I know there aren't many prestigious tournament around the area unless it deals with Syracuse University or the upcoming golf tournament at Turning Stone. The other anchor acts I did were over airport security at Hancock and George W. Bush and his personally selected panel on what to do with verterans and medical treatment.