Five bass tournament names a press: opens, big bass derbies, buddy tournaments, club and school series, night and kids' events.
Bass Tournament Names
Little Anglers Bass Derby
Personal Best Bass Derby
Club Points Bass Opener
College Bass Club Invitational
Jig Bite Classic
How it works
These bass tournament names come five at a press, from Largemouth Open to Junior Lunker Derby. All 110 name the event, not a team, and none was taken from a tournament trail, a sponsor or a lake.
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Five sets in the menu
Opens and classics is the first set in the menu: Bucketmouth Open, Crankbait Classic. Big bass contests and derbies is for one heavy fish: Lunker Derby, Net Buster Derby. Team and buddy tournaments has Same Boat Bass Classic, Club and high school series has Varsity Anglers Classic, and Night, kayak and kids' events has Full Moon Bass Derby.
Weight or length
A weigh-in tournament is won on the total weight of the fish caught in a set time. Others go by length, with each fish photographed and released: Longest Bass Derby and Measure and Release Derby are for those. A lunker is a fish that is large for its kind.
Questions and answers
What is a good name for a bass tournament?
Largemouth Open, Smallmouth Classic and Spotted Bass Open name the fish, and Spinnerbait Open and Topwater Open name the lure. All five are in Opens and classics, a set of 21.
What are good names for a big bass contest?
Biggest Bass of the Day, Big Bass by the Hour, Golden Lunker Derby and Top of the Scale Derby are in Big bass contests and derbies, written for an event that one fish wins.
What can we call a kids' fishing tournament?
My First Bass Derby, Small Fry Bass Derby, Worm and Bobber Derby and Little Anglers Bass Derby are in the last set, beside names for night and kayak events.
Is any of these the name of a real bass tournament?
None was taken from one, and no trail, sponsor, lake or boat maker is named. Each name was looked up in the English Wikipedia on 2026-10-02 and none stood there as an event. A local club may still share one.
A list of 110 bass tournament names written by Wheel of Teams on 2026-10-02 and filed in five groups. Every name carries a word of bass fishing (a largemouth, a livewell, a weigh-in, a lure) and names the event, not a team. The terms were looked up on 2026-10-02 in the English Wikipedia articles Bass fishing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_fishing), Fishing tournament (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_tournament), Largemouth bass, Smallmouth bass, Bass boat, Livewell, Surface lure, Fishing lure, Kayak fishing and Johnboat, and lunker in Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lunker), text under CC BY-SA 4.0. No name was taken from a tournament trail, a sponsor, a lake or a maker of boats or tackle. Each name was also looked up in the English Wikipedia on 2026-10-02, as an article title and as an exact phrase in the text of its articles, and none stood there as an event; that look-up does not find a local event. Compared by script the same day with every other list on this site: no name is repeated. Nothing was checked against a trademark register, so a local derby may share a name by coincidence. Licence: own work