Our purpose is to stimulate public awareness of bass fishing as a major sport, to offer our state conservation department our organized moral and political support and encouragement, to promote full adherence to all conservation codes and to demand adequate water standards, to detect and report any polluter, to improve our skill as bass anglers through fellowship of friendly exchange of expert bass catching techniques and ideas, and to promote and encourage youth fishing, and a love for this recreation.  GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP AND CAMARADERIE SHALL PREVAIL.