JANUARY 14, 2025

Pursuit Highlights 2025 Fishing Tournament Programs

Pursuit Media TV, LLC is pleased to highlight the largest number of diverse competitive fishing tours and events available for television viewers.

Pursuit Channel has been hosting the largest and most diverse offering of fishing tournament coverage available in the industry for over twelve years now. Pursuit viewers on any platform can keep up with popular tournament fishing programs that include everything from bass, crappie, walleye, catfish, and saltwater tournaments.

These programs provide tour coverage from east to west and north to south and include popular high-school events on the Federation Angler series and college events such as the Association of Collegiate Anglers. In addition to the scholastic level events, a mix of professional tournaments are also included such as the National Walleye Tour, Texas Team Trail, Skeeter Bass Champs, Federation Angler, and a variety of other tournament trails to include recap programs such as Angler’s Channel Bass Wrap Up Show.

“Our line-up of 2025 fishing-tournament content provides a great mix of coverage from some of the most popular tournament series in the space.” says Rusty Faulk, Founder and CEO of Pursuit Media. “Our diversity of programming in this arena is unmatched as our Pursuit Channel viewers are able see an abundance of programs dedicated to virtually every category of competitive fishing that there is. We absolutely love working with these folks and we’re very proud to deliver this great content to our viewers, many of which only get Pursuit or Pursuit UP.” he continues.

Here’s a look at some of the 2025 Tournament-coverage programs available each week on Pursuit Channel:

  • Bass Pro Shop’s Collegiate Bass Fishing Series – One of Pursuit’s most popular programs that highlights the largest and oldest collegiate fishing series in the nation is brought to us by The Association of Collegiate Anglers and the Bass Pro Shops Collegiate Bass Fishing Series. Celebrating the program’s 20th Anniversary this year, young college anglers from all over the country compete on this popular trail where they crown not only a national champion but the School of the Year for the whole nation.
  • Skeeter Bass Champs – A very popular trail and TV show from our friends at Bass Champs will keep you up to date with their tournament trail series each week. Growing in popularity each and every year, Bass Champs is also America’s richest amateur tournament organization.
  • National Walleye Tour – Offering premier, tour-level competition for walleye anglers across the country, The National Walleye Tour presented by Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s is the largest, most prestigious, and lucrative walleye fishing series in the nation. This fan-favorite has been airing on Pursuit for more than a decade now.
  • Texas Team Trail – The Bass Pro Shops Texas Team Trail presented by Progressive offers a premier tournament series designed exclusively by fishermen for fishermen. The series features some of the best venues in the Lonestar State, as well as one of the largest payouts in the nation for a team tournament.
  • Federation Angler TV – Since 1968, the independent state bass Federations have worked together to support the grassroots growth of fishing and the growth of the entire sport fishing/outdoors industry in their states. For many years now, Pursuit viewers have been catching this very well produced show highlighting various national fishing tournaments featuring a range of anglers from grassroots to Tournament Pros.
  • Student Angler Federation TV – From the producers of Federation Angler TV, comes this popular series that highlights one of the fastest growing youth related movements across the country…High School fishing clubs. We’re proud to have this series airing in the 2nd quarter each year and it’s always been popular with our viewers.
  • King Kat Tournament Trail – This popular catfish series presented by Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s. Anglers from across ten different states compete in local qualifier events with the hopes of moving on to the national events. Family friendly with low entry fees to entice participation along with no entry fee for an added angler under 16 or over 65 to join a team.
  • Angler’s Channel Bass Wrap Up Show - The Angler’s Channel Bass Wrap Up show is an informative recap of professional, amateur, and grassroots-level bass fishing tournaments across the country. Bringing tournament trails of all sizes to the spotlight, by capturing the anglers who fish and finish well in these events. The program also mixes in informative segments on new techniques, new products, and share useful information to help the weekend angler achieve their goals of learning about all things fishing.

Full airing schedules are available on pursuitchannel.com or check your local listings for these series and all the other great fishing and hunting shows you’ll find on Pursuit. Also don’t overlook how easy it is to access great Pursuit content via our Pursuit UP platform. See below for the many providers and apps where it exists…with no subscription required!

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Pursuit Programs Available Include: Bass Pro Shop’s Collegiate Series, Sportsman’s Adventures with Captain Rick Murphy, National Walleye Tour, Texas Team Trail, Skeeter Bass Champs, The Scott Martin Challenge, Bass Pro Shop’s Fisherman’s Handbook, Ted Nugent’s Spirit of the Wild, King Kat Tournament Trail, Linder’s Angling Edge, Hank Parker Outdoor Magazine, Archer’s Choice, Red Arrow TV, The High Road with Keith Warren, Americana Outdoors presented by Garmin, Tails from the Bayou, Bad Outdoors, Fisherman’s Digest, Viral Outdoors, The Bearded Buck, For Love or Likes, Mark Peterson’s The Journey Within, Federation Angler, Josh White Outdoor Adventures, Hunting After Dark, Fisherman’s Digest, Jimmy Houston Outdoors, Texas Outdoor Lifestyles, Trigger Time TV, McWhorter Rifles’ Precision Hunting TV, Angler’s Channel TV, On The Hook, Hitmen, Wiebe Trapline Adventures, Gunwerks Long Range Pursuit, North American Trapper, The American Way, Hunting with HECS, Surviving Mann, On the Road, Texas Outdoor Lifestyles, Whitetail Militia, USOC Adventures, Dying Breed TV, Dream Makers, Fly Rod Chronicles, Man Vs. Elk, Deer & Wildlife Stories, A Legacy with Laramy “Sasquatch” Miller, and many more.

About Pursuit: With majority ownership by The Bordelon Group, Pursuit Media, LLC, is the industry leader covering more homes than any other outdoor channel. In total home and user delivery, has its linear feed Pursuit Channel, active nationally to 22+ million homes via DIRECTV, AT&T U-verse HD, DIRECTV Stream, DISH Network, Sling TV HD, Comcast Xfinity, Frndly TV, Fios by Verizon HD, Centurylink Prism HD, Cox Communication HD and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC). PursuitUP, is active to 100+ million users through Samsung’s TV Plus, Sinclair’s STIRR, Xumo Play, Glewed TV, Vidgo, FreeCast, Kloud TV, MediaCom, NOW TV, Select TV, TCL Smart TVs, Plex, and many more. Additionally, PursuitUP’s VOD library is readily available online to anyone at pursuituptv.com, or by downloading the PursuitUP app available on most devices.

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