Fancy promotions and advertising hype don't mean squat if the product doesn't produce.  Tuesday at the Yamaha super-secret test lab here in this riverside community, the boating journalists got to see what all the fuss was about.

The Toyota Texas Bass Classic (TTBC), the professional bass fishing world championship, will be broadcast nationally on CBS Sports this Saturday, November 21.

Here's a quick rundown of the new engines, based on the presentation Monday evening, which are in production or will be by the end of the 2010 first quarter:

The Texas A&M team of Paul Manley of Orange, Texas, and Andrew Shafer of Chatfield, Texas, stunned the crowd on Monday bringing in a bag of six bass totaling 17 pounds, 2 ounces to win the National Guard FLW College Fishing Texas Regional Championship on Sibley Lake with a three-day total of 16 bass weighing 30-7.

FLW Outdoors and BRP have signed a new multi-year agreement, marking their 9th consecutive year as a sponsor of FLW Outdoors.

The Future Fisherman Foundation (F3) today announced the launch of a new program, Tournaments for Tomorrow, that will provide financial support for youth fishing programs such as the mentor-based Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs program, the school-based Physh Ed angling and boating education program, and the Boys & Girls Clubs' C.A.T.C.H. after-school fishing program.

The Baylor University team of Jay Holland of Waco, Texas, and Andrew McAdams of Lorena, Texas, added to their lead at the National Guard FLW College Fishing Texas Regional Championship on Sibley Lake Sunday with five bass weighing 6 pounds, 5 ounces for a two-day total of 11 bass weighing 17-4.