Correct. Here is the short version of the writeup.
Fishermen have competed against each other since the first two anglers showed off their respective catches. But Earl Golding, former outdoors writer for the Waco Tribune-Herald, invented bass tournaments when he organized an event he called the Central Texas Invitational. Lake Whitney was a new and highly productive bass lake in 1955.
When Golding would talk to marina owners around the new lake, each would tout a local angler as the best they'd ever seen. Golding began to wonder who was really the top dog, and he came up with the idea of holding a fishing tournament. He talked his newspaper into sponsoring the event.
Golding invited 75 teams to the Central Texas Invitational, and 73 showed up. As soon as the tournament was over, Golding was bombarded with requests for invitations to the next year's event. He changed the name to the Texas State Bass Tournament in 1956 and made it an open event. That year, 406 anglers entered the only bass tournament held in Texas.
The Annual Tournament was held this past weekend, on Richland-Chambers Lake in Texas. One of the major sponsors of the tournament is - Nitro!
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