Knoxville isn’t just a great fishing town, it’s a bass fishing town. With world-class fisheries, a deep rooted culture for the outdoors, and a downtown built to host all kinds of major sporting events, Knoxville checks every box for what the Bassmaster Classic represents. Often called the Super Bowl of bass fishing, the Classic deserves a venue that reflects the scale, history, and passion of the sport, and Knoxville delivers.
Elite Fisheries at the Center of It All
Knoxville sits at the top of the Tennessee River system, surrounded by some of the most productive and diverse bass fisheries in the country. Lakes like Fort Loudon/Tellico (Classic waters), Watts Bar, Douglas and Cherokee are proven big bass fisheries capable of producing dramatic weigh-ins, diverse patterns, and constantly changing conditions that will put the best anglers in the world to the test…