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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Radio: Arey, Mullins and Brasher
Listen to the latest episode of Bassmaster Radio featuring Matt Arey, David Mullins and Bryan Brasher.
Przekurat’s origin story includes a pro angler father
Bassmaster Elite Series rookie Jay Przekurat turned a lot of heads and raised more than a few eyebrows during the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at the St. Lawrence River, all...
Radio: Przekurat, Johnston and Blaylock
Listen to the Bassmaster Radio featuring interviews with Elite pros Jay Przekurat, Cory Johnston and Stetson Blaylock.
Experiencing an incredible fishery
If you would have told me I’d catch 20 pounds of smallmouth a day and not make the cut, I would have told you there’s no way. But that was...
Loughran wins BassTrakk prize at St. Lawrence River
Despite a much slower Day 2 at the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at St. Lawrence River, Ed Loughran still managed to take home the BassTrakk Contingency Prize and the additional...
Daily Limit: Kennedys encounter rough weather on trek
While pre-practicing for the final Elite, Steve Kennedy and family were sent scrambling for shelter by a tornado warning. After the storm passed, they emerged from cover OK but witnessed...
Przekurat rockets back into ROY lead
Fittingly, Jay Przekurat is back in first place in the Falcon Rods Bassmaster Rookie of the Year race. It’s where he’s been after five of the seven Elite Series tournaments...
Palaniuk’s lead widens in AOY race
Brandon Palaniuk knows he’s leading the race for the Progressive Bassmaster Angler of the Year title. He insists that he doesn’t know by how much. His mindset is simply, “I’ve...
Jack Link’s Hook the Beast: Welcher’s 6-12 smallmouth
Kyle Welcher caught the Phoenix Boats Big Bass of the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at St. Lawrence River, a legit trophy smallmouth weighing 6 pounds, 12 ounces, also qualifying the...
Big bass of St. Lawrence
Light winds allowed the Elites to freely access the Lake Ontario waters, leading to records galore in the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at St. Lawrence River.
Momentum is everything
As I look back at all that happened during the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at St. Lawrence River, I think it might take a couple of months for it all...
Cory Johnston’s spinning rig for St. Lawrence River
Cory Johnston’s show-and-tell of his Daiwa Tatula spinning reel and rod for fishing on the St. Lawrence River.
