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MLF Makes BIG MOVES! JOHN COX Joins The 2021 Bass Pro Tour – Bass365 LIVECAST
Big moves to the MLF roster in 2021. Florida Pro JOHN COX joins the BASS365 LIVECAST to talk about his decision to join the Bass Pro Tour in 2021. What he likes about the Schedule, Competition and How The Every Fish Counts Format will effect his game. PLUS how Important are HIGH END ELECTRONICS, Aluminum Bass Boats advantage, Winter Bass Fishing tips and MUCH MORE!
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MISSLE BAITS Surprise Factory Bass365 LIVECAST with JOHN CREWS
Live with John Crews from the Missile Baits Factory, to announce a Surprise product reveal.
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Major League Fishing Announces Cancellation of REDCREST 2021 Outdoor Sports Expo, Confirms Tulsa for REDCREST 2022
Expo Scheduled for February 26-28 in Tulsa Cancelled, REDCREST 2021 – the Bass Pro Tour Championship – to Proceed as Scheduled on Grand Lake
TULSA, Okla. (Nov. 24, 2020) – Major League Fishing (MLF) announced today that the REDCREST 2021 Outdoor Sports Expo, scheduled to be held Feb. 26-28, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been cancelled. REDCREST 2021, the MLF Bass Pro Tour Championship, will proceed as scheduled on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees showcasing the top 40 Bass Pro Tour anglers from the 2020 season competing for the REDCREST title and the top prize of $300,000.
In addition to the cancellation, MLF also announced that Tulsa and the River Spirit Expo Square will host the REDCREST 2022 Outdoor Sports Expo on March 25-27, 2022. Competition will again be held on Grand Lake.
MLF officials remained in close contact with VisitTulsa and the Tulsa Sports Commission – divisions of Tulsa Regional Tourism – throughout the year in planning for the 2021 event. Mounting uncertainty due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, combined with travel restrictions and a guest capacity reduction at Expo Square has rendered continuing with the Expo inadvisable. MLF expects the decision will help exhibitors, attendees and sponsors plan accordingly.
“The past eight months has challenged everyone, including our industry and sports events in general. This proactive decision will allow our partners enough time to plan accordingly for 2021,” said Michael Mulone, MLF Senior Director of Events and Partnerships. “The decision to cancel the expo is a tough one, but we believe it is the right one. Every week we had to expand the show floor plan because of demand, and we expected to sell out the entire facility. Now, with more than a year of lead time, we are already looking ahead to REDCREST 2022.”
The REDCREST 2021 Outdoor Sports Expo had been a much-anticipated event and was expected to be a big win for the local Tulsa economy. In addition to the sponsors, exhibitors and media, tens of thousands of fans were expected to converge on Tulsa and the Northeastern Oklahoma area.
“We are disappointed that the Major League Fishing REDCREST Championship Expo is being postponed due to the lingering pandemic. We are partnering with all involved parties to prioritize the safety of event participants and the right decision is to postpone,” said Ray Hoyt, President, Tulsa Regional Tourism. “This event is expected to deliver millions of dollars in total economic impact for the region, and we look forward to hosting this world-renowned event in the Tulsa area in March, 2022.”
“While the cancellation of the REDCREST 2021 Expo is disappointing, it is a decision that we understand and fully support,” said Gary Lancina, Senior Director of Marketing at Mercury Marine. “We will certainly miss the public interaction and activation, but are committed to the safety and well-being of the fishing community. We look forward to a great 2021 REDCREST competition and anticipate the excitement of an Expo as part of REDCREST 2022.”
For complete details and updated information on REDCREST 2021, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow MLF’s social media outlets at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
About Major League Fishing
Founded in 2011, Major League Fishing (MLF) brings the high-intensity sport of competitive bass fishing into America’s living rooms on Outdoor Channel, Discovery, CBS, CBS Sports Network, World Fishing Network, Sportsman Channel, and on-demand on MyOutdoorTV (MOTV). According to Nielsen ratings, Major League Fishing remains the number one series on Outdoor Channel for five years and MLF premiered as the number one outdoor show in their time slot on Discovery in 2019.
In 2019 MLF acquired FLW, which expands their portfolio to include the world’s largest grassroots-fishing organization, including the strongest five-biggest-fish format professional bass fishing tour, the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit, as well as the Toyota Series, Phoenix Bass Fishing League presented by T-H Marine, Abu Garcia College Fishing presented by YETI, and High School Fishing presented by Favorite Fishing.
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Texas Topwater Bonanza Lucky Craft GUNFISH
Fall is an amazing time of the year, check out a few fish catches from our recent trip to Lake Athens with Kelley Jordon. We had some topwater fun with the Lucky Craft Gunfish!
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Williams Claims Victory At Tough Bassmaster Central Open On Lewisville Lake
LEWISVILLE, Texas — Enduring a tough day marked by mishaps and disappointment, Tommy Williams of Shepherdsville, Ky., won the Basspro.com Bassmaster Central Open on Lewisville Lake with a three-day total of 41 pounds, 15 ounces.
Tommy Williams, of Shepherdsville, Ky., has won the Basspro.com Bassmaster Central Open at Lewisville Lake with a three-day total of 41 pounds, 15 ounces.
Photo by James Overstreet/B.A.S.S.
On Day 1, Williams caught a second-place limit of 18-8 and trailed early leader Brandon Dillard by 6-1. Adding a Day 2 limit of 15-8 sent him into Championship Saturday with a 6-3 lead.
On Saturday, that margin proved essential as Williams found only three keepers for 7-15, but held on to claim the top prize of $35,933 and a berth in the 2021 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk scheduled for March 19-21 on Lake Ray Roberts.
“Everybody knows how tough it is to win a tournament when you have a missed opportunity and I had a couple of them,” Williams said. “The fish bit funny today. I had fish blow up on a spinnerbait and I lost fish on a flipping stick.
“I fished clean all week, but today, they just pulled off. But it’s been a wonderful experience. Texas has treated me well. This is the first time I’ve been in contention to win one of these events.”
Williams spent his tournament in three areas. Two comprised windward pockets with baitfish blown into dense tangles of shallow wood. The third was a main-lake flat.
“I spent seven days of practice and it came together on the third day,” he said. “I fished my strengths through the whole thing.”
He flipped the wood with a Texas-rigged green pumpkin creature bait with the tails dipped in chartreuse. On the flat, he fished a 1/4-ounce spinnerbait with a single No. 3 willow-leaf blade and a chartreuse curly tail grub for a trailer.
The two-pronged attack served him the first two days, but he struggled in the final round.
“My first fish this morning came off when I pinned him against a log,” Williams said. “He was about a 2 1/2-pounder and I said ‘This is how it’s gonna go.’
“The next bite, I caught a good one, then the next fish came off. Then it was the dink-fest. I caught more short (undersized) fish in an hour and a half than I caught all week.”
Williams added another keeper mid-morning, but after multiple days of fishing pressure from him and other competitors sharing the area, the shallow wood bite fizzled.
“I told the camera crew ‘I have some spinnerbait fish that I’m going to have to go fish sometime today,” he said.
Making that move in the latter part of the day, Williams experienced one of his most frustrating moments around 1:30. Williams had a big fish boil under his spinnerbait without committing. When he followed up with the creature bait, the fish bit but missed the hook.
“I threw in there and he thumped it, but I missed it — twice,” Williams lamented.
Notably, Williams caught his third and final keeper on his spinnerbait spot, but he caught it on the Texas-rigged creature bait.
Branden Hollingshead of Azle, Texas, finished second with 40-6. Turning in the tournament’s biggest comeback, Hollingshead struggled with the Day 1 wind, catching only a pair of keepers for 7 pounds and placed 51st place.
With calmer conditions on Day 2, he found a limit of 20-12 and moved into third. Continuing his improvement, he caught a final-round limit of 12-10 and gained one more spot in the standings.
Targeting deeper rocks on ledges and a couple of isolated trees in 12 to 16 feet, Hollingshead caught his bass on a 3/8-ounce jig with a Yamamoto craw trailer.
“The bite was a lot tougher and I think the fishing pressure was getting to them,” he said. “I could see a lot of fish were suspended up in the water column. I was just hoping one or two of them would pull up there to feed and I could catch them.”
Brian Clark of Haltom City, Texas, finished third with 37-11. Days 1 and 2 saw Clark miss his limit by one fish with weights of 12-12 and 9-3 that put him in 12th, then eighth place.
He made up for those deficits on Day 3 by catching the day’s only limit. Clark anchored his 15-12 — the final day’s biggest catch — with a 7-10 largemouth. He caught his bass on a YUM Vibra King tube, a Strike King 5XD crankbait, a 1/2-ounce mop jig and a Lucky Craft 1.5 squarebill.
“I caught fish from 5 inches of water to 12 feet,” Clark said. “I knew I could go into this tournament trying to get a lot of bites or try to get five big ones a day.”
Brandon Dillard of Grapevine, Texas, won the $750 Phoenix Boats Big Bass award for the 8-11 largemouth he caught on Day 1. Hollingshead won the $500 Garmin Tournament Rewards prize.
Joe Lee of Midlothian, Texas, won the co-angler division title with a three-day total of 20-15. He sealed the win Saturday with a three-bass limit that weighed 7-7.
Michael Grossman of Dallas, Texas, won the $250 Phoenix Boats Big Bass award among co-anglers with a 6-4 largemouth.
Jason Christie of Park Hill, Okla., won the Central Opens Angler of the Year title with 719 points. He earns an automatic invitation to fish the 2021 Bassmaster Elite Series.
Louisiana pro Greg Hackney (716) finished second in the points race, followed by Japanese pro Kenta Kimura (713) and Georgia’s Marc Frazier (688). They will also receive invitations to fish the 2021 Bassmaster Elite Series.
Christie also leads the Falcon Rods Bassmaster Opens Angler of the Year standings with 1,179 points. The final Basspro.com Bassmaster Opens event is scheduled for Dec. 3-5 on Alabama’s Lay Lake.
The tournament was hosted by the Lewisville Convention & Visitors Bureau.
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2020 Basspro.com Bassmaster Central Open at Lewisville Lake 11/19-11/21
Lewisville Lake, Lewisville TX.
(BOATER) Standings Day 3
Angler Hometown No./lbs-oz Pts Total $$$
1. Tommy Williams Shepherdsville, KY 13 41-15 200 $35,933.00
Day 1: 5 18-08 Day 2: 5 15-08 Day 3: 3 07-15
2. Branden Hollingshead Azle, TX 12 40-06 199 $17,953.00
Day 1: 2 07-00 Day 2: 5 20-12 Day 3: 5 12-10
3. Brian Clark Haltom City, TX 13 37-11 198 $12,320.00
Day 1: 4 12-12 Day 2: 4 09-03 Day 3: 5 15-12
4. Bryan New Belmont, NC 11 33-05 197 $10,267.00
Day 1: 3 06-10 Day 2: 5 16-11 Day 3: 3 10-00
5. Greg Hackney Gonzales, LA 12 31-11 196 $8,932.00
Day 1: 5 17-01 Day 2: 4 07-10 Day 3: 3 07-00
6. Brandon Dillard Grapevine, TX 8 31-09 195 $8,963.00
Day 1: 5 24-09 Day 2: 2 03-04 Day 3: 1 03-12
7. Blake Whatley Harleton, TX 13 30-08 194 $7,700.00
Day 1: 5 09-13 Day 2: 5 13-00 Day 3: 3 07-11
8. Ken Iyobe Tokoname, Aichi JAPAN 10 27-05 193 $7,187.00
Day 1: 3 05-15 Day 2: 5 15-00 Day 3: 2 06-06
9. Shawn Temple Krugerville, TX 10 26-08 192 $5,647.00
Day 1: 5 11-04 Day 2: 4 11-10 Day 3: 1 03-10
10. Billy Cline Argyle, TX 9 26-06 191 $4,620.00
Day 1: 5 12-01 Day 2: 2 09-12 Day 3: 2 04-09
11. Keith Combs Huntington, TX 11 25-09 190 $4,107.00
Day 1: 4 12-02 Day 2: 5 09-05 Day 3: 2 04-02
12. Austin Cranford Norman, OK 9 23-06 189 $3,593.00
Day 1: 3 07-14 Day 2: 5 12-15 Day 3: 1 02-09
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PHOENIX BOATS BIG BASS
Brandon Dillard Grapevine, TX 08-11 $750.00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 18 327 836-04
2 11 255 680-13
3 2 31 86-00
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31 613 1603-01
2020 Basspro.com Bassmaster Central Open at Lewisville Lake 11/19-11/21
Lewisville Lake, Lewisville TX.
(NON_BOATER) Standings Day 3
Angler Hometown No./lbs-oz Pts Total $$$
1. Joe Lee Midlothian, TX 8 20-15 200 $16,093.00
Day 1: 3 07-13 Day 2: 2 05-11 Day 3: 3 07-07
2. Jeremy Montgomery Burleson, TX 4 15-12 199 $3,787.00
Day 1: 1 02-14 Day 2: 2 08-11 Day 3: 1 04-03
3. Bob Burgess Millington, TN 6 14-14 198 $2,840.00
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 3 09-00 Day 3: 3 05-14
4. Jeff Arnold Lewisville, TX 5 14-09 197 $2,130.00
Day 1: 3 09-08 Day 2: 1 03-04 Day 3: 1 01-13
5. Michael Grossman Dallas, TX 5 13-05 196 $2,238.00
Day 1: 3 05-06 Day 2: 1 06-04 Day 3: 1 01-11
6. Allen Heston Pittsburg, TX 6 12-12 195 $1,893.00
Day 1: 3 05-03 Day 2: 2 05-15 Day 3: 1 01-10
7. Adam Boyd Humble, TX 5 12-04 194 $1,799.00
Day 1: 1 02-15 Day 2: 3 07-05 Day 3: 1 02-00
8. Frank Williams Saint Charles, MO 3 10-01 193 $1,704.00
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 2 07-12 Day 3: 1 02-05
9. Eric Jenkins Arnold, MO 3 09-08 192 $1,562.00
Day 1: 1 01-11 Day 2: 1 05-13 Day 3: 1 02-00
10. Jorge Benitez Wallis, TX 4 09-05 191 $1,420.00
Day 1: 2 03-14 Day 2: 2 05-07 Day 3: 0 00-00
11. Brian Hamaker Huntsville, AL 2 08-05 190 $1,325.00
Day 1: 2 08-05 Day 2: 0 00-00 Day 3: 0 00-00
12. Jimmy Patterson Amarillo, TX 3 08-02 189 $1,231.00
Day 1: 0 00-00 Day 2: 3 08-02 Day 3: 0 00-00
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PHOENIX BOATS BIG BASS
Michael Grossman Dallas, TX 06-04 $250.00
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Totals
Day #Limits #Fish Weight
1 6 79 180-14
2 4 78 197-15
3 2 13 28-15
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12 170 407-12
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