Episode 1389: THE BIGGEST BASS TOURNAMENT IN HISTORY (WORLD BASS ENTERPRISES "THE CHAMPIONS")
BASS TALK LIVE
Mark Jeffreys
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Matt is joined by World Bass Enterprises Owner and CEO, Brian Bird, along with WBE Associate VP, Stephen Bird, and WBE VP of Marketing, Dalton Smith to talk about the recent announcement of "The Champions" tournament featuring a $3 million purse that includes a 1st place price of $1.25 million.
Check out World Bass Enterprises website here:
https://worldbassenterprises.com/
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 22nd season of Bass Talk Live. |
| 0:05.0 | BTL is presented by Bass Cat Boats. |
| 0:10.0 | Striking lures. |
| 0:12.0 | AFCO. |
| 0:14.0 | Pro Guy Batteries. |
| 0:15.0 | Spro. |
| 0:16.0 | Gama Katsu. |
| 0:18.0 | The Bass Tank. |
| 0:20.0 | Beatdown outdoors. and Sunline. |
| 0:25.6 | BTL coming at you. |
| 0:30.3 | Making a habit out of this BTL at night thing. |
| 0:33.2 | Welcome back to another exciting edition of BTL Bass Talk Live, where we're going to talk about |
| 0:37.0 | bass fishing. We're going to talk about big money bass fishing tonight. I was doing BTL this morning |
| 0:42.0 | with Matt Steffen. And I mean, this is what I do for a living. I cover the sport, a professional |
| 0:47.4 | bass fish and I fishy opens. I live it. It's my life 24-7. And pressure release drops about midway through the show this morning. |
| 0:57.5 | And if you notice, I was trying to look at some stuff while I was talking to Matt and all that |
| 1:01.1 | stuff and I'm reading it. |
| 1:02.7 | And the show ends and it's from the World Bass Enterprises. |
| 1:07.7 | There's this gold and black kind of diamond shape. |
| 1:13.5 | It says 2026, the Champions Tournament. The press release reads, World Bass Enterprises unveils the Champions Tournament |
| 1:19.8 | featuring top 50 anglers and record setting $3 million purse. And that got my attention, because |
| 1:27.2 | if you know anything about bass fishing over the past |
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