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The Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) briefed members of Congress yesterday on two simultaneous disasters impacting recreational fishing caused by the effects of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the total closure of substantial ocean fisheries by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

BASS, the worldwide authority on bass fishing, today announced that Nitro Boats will serve as a supporting sponsor of Bassmaster Elite Series and Bassmaster Opens events in 2010-11.

The President's FY 2011 budget request of $1.6 billion for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will focus funding on the agency's highest priority conservation initiatives, while containing costs through management efficiencies and other savings to address government fiscal realities.

Today, after more than six months of speculation and anxiety, we may finally discover what will happen with one of the biggest brands in boating and fishing.

Jimmy Mason of Alabama confirmed Thursday night he will not accept his Bassmaster Elite Series invitation for the 2010 season. Mason qualified through the Bassmaster Southern Open circuit this year.

"Fishing is one of America's greatest pastimes, and the more than 30 million anglers in the United States alone spend $45 billion a year of gear, travel and related services," says Ned Desmond, President and founder of Go Sportn.

A federal-level task force appears determined to develop a rushed policy that will ultimately govern anglers' use of public waters, including the likely expansion of no-fishing zones into the Great Lakes. Any such recommendations will be met head-on by BASS and several other sportfishing advocacy groups.

Under near perfect weather conditions, college bass fishing's premier event concluded with Murray State University slipping past University of North Texas to claim the 2009 BoatU.S. Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship title. Murray State joins past champions North Carolina State (2006), Texas A&M (2007) and University of Arkansas (2008) as winners of the event

In an epic rally this past weekend at the 2009 Bassmaster Classic, dubbed the "Super Bowl of fishing," Wiley X angler Skeet Reese edged out a field of fifty-one top anglers to gain professional fishing's highest honor and a $500k prize purse in his tenth Classic appearance. Reese joins a very small, elite club of fishermen who have won both the Bassmaster Angler of the Year (2007), and Bassmaster Classic Championship (2009).