To stimulate public awareness of Bass Fishing as a major sport. To offer our state conservation department our organized moral, political support and encouragement. To promote full adherence to all conservation codes and to demand adequate water standards. To detect and report any polluter and call public and political attention to his crime. To improve our skills as bass anglers through a fellowship of friendly exchange of expert bass fishing techniques and ideas, and to promote and encourage youth fishing, and a love for this great recreation. To function as a dynamic and effective link with other chapters of the B.A.S.S. Tennessee Bass Nation embracing the principles and purposes of the Federation Nation.