BassFan Media
BassFan.com was established to do one thing: Bring to bass anglers and fans a new, exciting, national type of coverage of pro bass fishing. The name BassFan says it all.

BassFan media also includes BassFan Radio and BassFan TV (Video), both of which will continue to develop and expand, as well as the BassFan World Rankings.

The BassFan World Rankings are the first and only statistical multi-year, cross-tour World Rankings of professional bass anglers, making them the most important stat in the sport of professional bass fishing. The BassFan World Rankings are updated after each tour-level event, including championships. For more about the rankings, click here. (Note: Single-year point races are not rankings. All rankings in major sports are multi-year because that is the only way to measure performance over time.)

To become a sponsor of or advertiser with any BassFan media, please contact us at marketing@BassFan.com.

Editorial Policies
BassFan's No. 1 duty is to its readers/viewers/listeners. Everything else is secondary.

Coverage of Conflicts

BassFan reports statements about controversies as they are obtained from observers and some or all of the parties involved. No attempt is made to weigh the statements to find "ultimate truths" or draw a conclusion about who, or whether anyone, was right or wrong. That option is up to the reader.

At times columnists whose views appear on BassFan.com address the perceived rights and wrongs in such situations. That is their prerogative as columnists, and BassFan does not necessarily agree with those views.

BassFan does not believe that reporting on controversies harms the sport of inshore fishing. To the contrary, such reporting is commonplace in all sports and contributes to a sport's depth and consequent fan-interest level. Controversy also is an unavoidable, and in fact necessary, part of all forms of competition.

Taking Sides Within the Industry

BassFan leads by example through not "taking sides" within the sport of inshore fishing, as all truly independent and professional (ethical) news outlets must do.

As part of that, BassFan will not accept any exclusive sponsorships within the fishing and marine industries. BassFan believes that every player is important to the success of the sport. We also endeavor to avoid shameless sponsor plugs.

Likewise, IshoreFan's coverage is not in any way influenced by sponsors/advertisers. In fact, here is the exact language we send to all of our sponsors: "BassFan's objective hard-news content is the biggest reason anglers and fans like BassFan. Because of that we will not in any way allow sponsors to censor or otherwise edit our content. To do that would compromise BassFan and thus the value of your sponsorship."

Disclosure of Fishing Locations/Info

BassFan is firmly against revealing specifically where tournament anglers fish, either via words, GPS points, or 3D or other mapping. Since time immemorial, fishing techniques have been shared, but for obvious reasons fishing spots have been closely-guarded secrets. We believe that fishing spots are the product of hard work and therefore should remain the exclusive information of the anglers who find them.

Any specific location information revealed by BassFan is done so at the request of the angler or because we have judged that the information isn't specific enough to reveal an angler's exact spot. At times it is revealed because one of the tournament organizations first revealed it publicly.

We do not publish pattern information during a competition unless an angler tells us that he or she won't mind that it is released.

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