On the heels of a record-setting 2024 Bassmaster Elite Series, where attendance and viewership numbers were equaled only by record weights and nail-biting finishes, the competitive field for the 2025 season has been set. Although last year’s rookie class took the Elites by storm, the young guns stepping up to the big stage this year are just as fierce. However, the veterans will have something to say about who will be holding the blue trophies when the scales settle.

B.A.S.S. and FOX have announced details of an expanded television schedule for the 2025 Elite Series and 2025 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic presented by Under Armour. The schedule includes coverage of all nine Elite Series events on FS1, with the last days of competition at Lake Fork and Lake Tenkiller being aired on the flagship FOX broadcast channel. FOX will also air the last two days of competition of the 2025 Bassmaster Classic at Lake Ray Roberts in Fort Worth, Texas.

“We are beginning our fifth year with FOX/FS1 and are proud of the relationship we have established with them and their dedication to bringing the best live tournament action from the biggest stages in professional bass fishing,” said B.A.S.S. Chief Operating Officer Phillip Johnson. “We look forward to providing even more tournament coverage from the worldwide authority on bass fishing that will reach an even broader audience in 2025.”

The new expanded schedule is the result of a 2024 season of record viewership and increased interest in Bassmaster LIVE programming and includes a massive 300% increase in hours of coverage on the flagship FOX broadcast channel, setting the stage for a monumental surge in viewership for 2025.

B.A.S.S. expects the new agreement to deliver more than 20 million viewers in 2025, which would be the biggest television audience in the history of the sport.

In an effort to facilitate better communication and collaboration with Elite Series anglers, the Bassmaster Elite Angler Board of Professionals (ABP) has been created, B.A.S.S. announced today. The Advisory Board consists of six Elite anglers who were voted on by their peers and who will speak on behalf of the entire field in communicating with B.A.S.S. in order to provide a more direct and efficient way of discussing any current challenges and future opportunities.

The bitter cold and whipping winds anglers endured during the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Team Championship this week on Kentucky Lake took a much friendlier turn Saturday.

Noah Morgan and Clint Knight used some home-water knowledge to earn a come-from-behind victory in the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Team Championship Friday on Kentucky Lake.

B.A.S.S. has announced Newport, an industry leader in kayak motors, electric outboards, trolling motors, batteries, inflatable skiffs and accessories, as the title sponsor for the 2025 Bassmaster Kayak Series.

With Day 2 of the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Team Championship postponed before Day 1 even concluded, competitors on Kentucky Lake wanted to make a strong statement Wednesday in the final Bassmaster event of 2024.

B.A.S.S. officials are postponing Day 2 of competition at the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Team Championship due to high winds out of the north that will be against current and could create potentially unsafe conditions.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Noreen Clough Memorial Scholarship for Females in Fisheries. In memory of the late Noreen Clough, the longtime U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service administrator and former National Conservation Director for B.A.S.S, her friends and colleagues established a scholarship honoring her contributions to the field of fisheries management and conservation, as well as her trailblazing role as a female leader in the American conservation community.

B.A.S.S. announced today that Bass Pro Shops, a long-standing premier sponsor of the organization’s many events and the title sponsor of the 2025 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic presented by Under Armour, will launch the Bassmaster & Bass Pro Shops Holiday Shop-A-Thon beginning today and running through mid-January.

When it was announced that the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Team Championship had to be moved from Louisiana's Ouachita River to Kentucky Lake in Tennessee, there certainly were more than a few people who started scrambling.

B.A.S.S. officials have announced the 2025 Mercury B.A.S.S. Nation Qualifier Series presented by Lowrance schedule, and the slate features some of the hottest bass fisheries in America to give anglers the opportunity to qualify for the Mercury B.A.S.S. Nation Championship presented by Lowrance and a shot at the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic presented by Under Armour.