Youth Membership & Master Angler Program (MAP)

At BASS, we want to provide the tools to help make any young anglers education a complete experience. This is now possible with the newly developed Youth Membership with the built-in Master Angler Program (MAP). This dedicated youth membership is an exclusive membership aimed at making the young angler a Master Angler, good enough to teach Mom or Dad a thing or two. This exciting program is designed to educate young anglers through self-paced home and internet-based training modules.

The Master Angler Program is aimed at the youngest of BASS members and offers its own benefits and rewards, but will benefit anglers at any age. The $15 membership includes a personalized certificate, instruction booklet that covers three skills and decals. As the skills are completed, the member places the decals over the corresponding skill on the certificate to track progress. Once the first three skills are completed, the member completes an included form and sends it to BASS officials, who then send out instruction for the next three skills. A member earns a Master Angler decal once all of the skills are completed, as well as an invitation to become a full BASS member.

Many important skills are taught, including knot tying, casting, plastic baits, hard baits, topwater baits, bass behavior, landing bass, conservation and cover/structure patterns. Youth members will receive a BASS patch and decal, official membership card, two issues of Junior Bassmaster magazine and one issue of Bassmaster University Techniques magazine, eligibility into the Junior Lunker Club and prize drawings and of course the Master Angler Program.