About BASS

The history of BASS and the founder Ray Scott

‘A giant step’

man who won that first Classic, Bobby Murray, remembers the weigh-in taking place on the roof of a floating dock on Lake Mead a lake that none of the competitors had fished before, nor knew, until they were in the air en route, that they were going to fish at all.

Storms hurt Louisiana freshwater fisheries

Preliminary estimates indicate at least 165 million fish were killed by the one-two punch of hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported in early October

Full-court press against snakeheads

State and federal wildlife officials are taking decisive steps to prevent the spread of northern snakehead fish up and down the Mississippi River.

Westward trek continues

Federal and state officials working in Colorado announced in late September that larval quagga and zebra mussels (veligers) have been found in water samples taken from Grand Lake, Shadow Mountain and Willow Creek reservoirs

Record year for pollution

Last spring's floods that inundated several Midwestern states washed near-record amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Mississippi River and its tributaries

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