CBS Sports Airs Texas Bass Classic
This Sunday, May 11, at 4:00 PM Central, CBS Sports (WHNT – 19) will air the Toyota Texas Bass Classic, taped April 20, at Lake Fork, Texas. This historic broadcast will be the first time a bass fishing tournament is aired to a nationally televised audience, possibly taking the sport to new levels.
You may ask yourself, why is this posted on a Huntsville political blog?
Let’s start with Huntsville’s Own Fishing Legend, Travis Rulle, FLW Pro Angler. His team placed 10th in the tournament.
B.A.S.S. Founder Ray Scott (”We were teaching fishing and preaching anti-pollution”), of Montgomery, campaigned with Mike Huckabee here in Huntsville.
Bass Pro Shops is opening a new store at the intersection of I-65 and I-565, part of the $1.3 billion Sweetwater project.
Fishing is one of the most popular sports in the USA, with about 30 million fishing licenses sold nationwide. Alabama is one of the nation’s premier fishing destinations. Fishing requires clean water and good fisheries management. And as an example of public-private partnership, Texas teamed with Budweiser to help fund fish genetics research (Budweiser ShareLunker Program).
Conservation of our natural resources is good public policy.
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You forgot to mention that Lake Guntersville is considered one of the best bass fishing lakes in the world. Some say it’s the best in the U.S.
I wonder if Bass Pro will hold Decatur hostage like they have done Leeds. They still haven’t built the Leeds Bass Pro after 3-4 years of talking about it.