Thursday, February 23, 2023

Pursuit Channel Highlights Diverse Tour Programming

Glenwood, AL – Pursuit Channel invites viewers to tune-in to catch a diverse offering of competitive fishing tours and events each week.

Pursuit Channel has been hosting the most diverse offering of fishing tournament coverage programming available in the industry for more than a decade. Pursuit viewers have been able to keep up with popular tournament fishing programs that include everything from bass, crappie, walleye, catfish, and salt water. These programs provide tour coverage from east to west and north to south and also includes popular high-school events on the Federation Angler series and college events such as the Association of Collegiate Anglers. In addition to those scholastic level events a mix of professional tournaments such as National Walleye Tour and Wild West Bass Trail are seen weekly in addition to Bass Champs, Texas Team Trail, and a variety of Crappie tournaments.

“Our line-up of fishing-tournament content isn’t matched anywhere, and it provides a great mix of coverage from some of the most popular series in the space.” says Rusty Faulk, Founder and CEO of Pursuit Media. “Once again this year, viewers will be 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 Tournament-coverage programs on Pursuit Channel in 2023. #wearepursuit

  • 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. 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 2nd quarter each year and it’s always been popular with our viewers.

  • Wild West Bass Trail’s Apex Pro Tour – Another great series and long-term Pursuit partner comes from our friends at the Wild West Bass Trail. The Apex Pro Tour is a very strong and popular tournament trail in the western United States. This well-produced series has been a viewer favorite highlighting various fishing tournaments from beautiful locations out west.

  • King Kat Tournament Trail – New to the Pursuit lineup in 2023 is this popular catfish series presented by Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s. Angler from across ten different states compete in local qualifier events with the hopes of moving on 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.

  • Crappie Masters / Crappie USA/ American Crappie Trail – If Crappie fishing is your thing, Pursuit has you covered with three series owned and operated by American Fishing Tournaments. Each trail is renowned and respected across the country providing fun, exciting, and well organized events for its members. Pursuit viewers have been tuning in for years for these great programs and 2023 will be no exception.

Check your local listings, or visit pursuitchannel.com, for full airing schedules and to check out 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!

Pursuit Programs Available This Quarter Include: Sportsman’s Adventures with Captain Rick Murphy, The Scott Martin Challenge, Bass Pro Shop’s Fisherman’s Handbook, Ted Nugent’s Spirit of the Wild, Linder’s Angling Edge, On the Water with Hank Parker, Red Arrow TV, The High Road with Keith Warren, Americana Outdoors, Timmy Horton Outdoors, National Walleye Tour, Bassquatch Hunter TV, Let's Geaux Fishin' with Kevin Ford, Elusive Wildlife, Mark Peterson’s The Journey Within, Inside the Wildside, Unleashed, Honey Hole TV, Lund The Ultimate Fishing Adventures, Fisherman’s Digest, Skeeter Bass Champs, Jimmy Houston Outdoors, Trigger Time TV, McWhorter Rifles’ Precision Hunting TV, Hitmen, Wiebe Trapline Adventures, Gunwerks Long Range Pursuit, Trapping Inc., Legends of the Outdoors, Hunting with HECS, On the Road, Bone Wild TV, Whitetail Militia, Unleashed, USOC Adventures, Dying Breed TV, KingKat USA, Dream Makers, Fly Rod Chronicles, Headwaters for Heroes Outdoors, Man Vs. Elk, The Real World with Blaine Anthony, Deer & Wildlife Stories, Bass Pro Shop’s Collegiate Series, Texas Team Trail, and many more.

About Pursuit: Pursuit Media, LLC, the industry leader in total home and user delivery, has its linear feed Pursuit Channel, active nationally to 30+ million homes via DIRECTV, AT&T U-verse HD, DISH Network, Sling TV HD, Comcast Xfinity, Fios by Verizon HD, Centurylink Prism HD, Cox Communication HD and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC). PursuitUP, is active to 75+ million users through Samsung’s TV Plus, Sinclair’s STIRR, Xumo, Glewed TV, Vidgo, Kloud TV, Select TV, Sports.TV, Local Now, 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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