Bass Pro Shops Crappie Masters – Fishing Tournament Schedules
Bass Pro Shops Crappie Masters is the nations premier crappie fishing tournament trail. Our goal is to provide competitive crappie fishing tournaments for everyone, where grass root anglers, weekend anglers, competitive anglers, and families can enjoy and compete for great prizes. Striving to promote, enhance, and preserve our outdoor heritage, specifically crappie fishing, we promote local and national sponsors, anglers, lakes and tourist destinations.
Crappie Masters holds various activities other than tournaments in an effort to promote crappie fishing and our outdoor way of life. Crappie fishing seminars and classes are an example. At each tournament, Crappie Masters holds a free kids fishing rodeo where kids fish for fun and prizes from our great sponsors to ensure each child goes home with something. We also provide online educational videos so you can learn the latest and greatest tips and techniques from tournament anglers and staff.
We invite you to come join us. A place where friends and families crappie fish for fun, with the spice of competition.
40 Years of Innovation
Over the 40-year-period from 1949 to when the Childre family licensed the Lew’s brand to Browning® in 1989, the family-run business had made many major contributions that would change forever the face of recreational sport fishing. Additional introductions they were involved in beyond the Speed Stick and Speed Spool included single-foot guide frames, aluminum oxide guides, unique spinning rod handles, Speed Sticker® worm hooks, Magic Carpet trolling motor, non-roller straddle-mounted trolling guides, Fuji FPS reel seat, V-shaped casting spool, SIC (silicon carbide) guide rings, Speed Spin® spinning reels, Speed Lock® reel seat/foregrip, telescopic graphite Speed Sticks, Fuji “V” frame guides, luminous tip downrigger rod, Hardloy guide rings, graphite Tennessee spinning handle, fused solid tip graphite rods, Boron Speed Sticks, graphite Bream Buster, Zirconia pawls, small body/large spool spinning reels, “Power Up” drag system and “Soft Trigger” handle system.
Lew’s Today
Today, the Lew’s brand and its many well-known trademarks are under the ownership of Do Outdoors Inc. and longtime Childre family friend Lynn Reeves. Reeves has made the promise and commitment to return the Lew’s name to its place of prominence in the industry, keying on the same principles by which Lew Childre originally founded the company … building innovative products that are faster, lighter and stronger.