Conservation News

B.A.S.S. Nation Conservation Clean-Up Challenge

The B.A.S.S. Conservation Clean-Up Challenge is an initiative to encourage anglers and boaters to tackle the problem of trash in our waterways. We want you to join forces with us...

Classic: Hartwell’s herring factor

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. You hear that one a lot in talks of wedding plans, but while the tradition helps guide a bride’s big day, the...

Fantasy Fishing

Fantasy Fishing: Shallow, deep or both?

Despite the 2021 Classic and the 2022 Classic being held on completely different bodies of water, and in completely different times of the year, I’m still considering the same question....

Fantasy Fishing

Fantasy Fishing: Winners just win

The first rule of picking Bassmaster Classic winners is that there are no rules. Sure, you can crunch numbers, play probabilities or consult your Magic 8-Ball – and the hometown...

Fantasy Fishing

Fantasy Fishing: High hopes for Hartwell

If Rapala Bassmaster Fantasy Fishing and Mercury Bassmaster Drain the Lake Challenge were board games, my Aunt Marilyn would have flipped the gameboard or table over and made everyone start...

Strike King Bassmaster College Series presented by Bass Pro Shops

McCormick ready to represent College Series at Classic

Bassmaster College Bracket Champion Tristan McCormick caught the competitive bug at an early age and that has propelled his bass fishing tournament success. In his hometown of Dickson, Tenn., McCormick...

Revisiting the Ice Bowl

The very first event I covered as an employee of B.A.S.S. was the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk on Lake Hartwell in 2015. When I showed...

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