The Bassmaster Elite Series is the highest level of professional bass fishing tournaments. Competitors must qualify for the series through the St. Croix Bassmaster Opens or the TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation, and anglers who are already on the Elite Series must re-qualify each year by maintaining enough points throughout the season. The pro anglers compete all season for the opportunity to win points toward the Progressive Bassmaster Angler of the Year award and to qualify for the Bassmaster Classic.
The series was founded in 2006. Its predecessors were the Bassmaster Tour, Top 150 and Top 100.
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Elite 20th season: Boat wraps
How Elite Series boat and truck wraps evolved as marketing vehicles for the pros.
Playing with pain
Chad Pipkens has experienced his share of bumps, bruises and breaks. But despite the limitations, despite the discomfort, regardless of the pain, the show must go on. Summarizing the searing truth confronting...
Daily Limit: Gloves off for Zona, Sanders new podcast
The gloves are off. While brutally honest throughout his two decades as analyst for Bassmaster TV, Mark Zona will be allowed to pull back the curtain further with Tommy Sanders...
Predicting each rookie’s best Elite finish in 2025
Learn what fisheries may set up perfectly for the accomplished 2025 Elite rookie class.
New Elite: Beau Browning
After rounding out the 2024 Bassmaster Opens schedule with three finishes in the top 20, Arkansan Beau Browning earned a spot in the Bassmaster Elite Series via the tough Elite...
20 tactics from 20 Elite seasons
Recalling 20 innovative tactics that evolved over 20 seasons of the Bassmaster Elite Series.
Predictions for the 2025 Elite Series
Old man winter may still be hanging around most of the country, but the good news is, you can warm your spirits knowing the Bassmaster Elite Series season is almost...
Fantasy Fishing: Hammer down early and often
Open letter to me, from me: Coy, the last few years have been pitiful. You chose every dark horse either one tournament early or one too late. Every “shoe-in” was...
Daily Limit: Cobb tempers past results on Elite schedule
In fishing, Brandon Cobb knows past results don’t dictate future success. One might think the 35-year-old from Greenwood, S.C., is licking his chops over the 2025 Elite Series schedule since...
New Elite: Blake Capps
Oklahoman Blake Capps was a bass addict even before he attended Muskogee’s Hilldale Elementary School. In third grade, he and his classmates wrote on slips of paper what they hoped...
Wintertime warmup in the South
All of a sudden, the winter weather has gotten more bearable. Time to go bass fishing.
Ramping up for the year
I made a lot of great memories during the Christmas season. It was a good little break that allowed me to spend time with my wife and daughter, visit both...
Meet the 2025 Elite Rookies and newcomers
Find out how the rookies and newcomers all qualified to fish the Bassmaster Elite Series for 2025.