Historic Nashville Bass Fishing Tournament Offers $1.25 Million Prize

• The Champions fishing tournament in Nashville offers a record $1.25 million prize.
• Sixty professional bass anglers are competing over three days on Old Hickory Lake.
• The event was inspired by Brian Bird's first fish caught at age 6 or 7 in Texas.
• The total purse for the tournament is $3.25 million, a record for bass fishing.
• The tournament is the first unified bass-fishing competition with such a large prize.