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Major League Fishing pro Matt Lee qualified for his first Championship Round on the Bass Pro Tour on his favorite lake in the country, Lake Champlain for Toyota Stage Six. The Carhartt titled pro dominated his Qualifying Round to earn his spot in the Championship Round for a one-in-ten chance at $100,000 and a BPT trophy.

M. Lee caught a mixed bag to amass the 130+ pounds of Lake Champlain bass he caught over his first two days of competition, with over 100-lbs. of that weight coming during his first day on the water. His primary area is a 30-yard stretch of grass – a scrape as he called it – that Lee first discovered in a tournament back in the summer of 2014.

The Quantum pro relied on three techniques to catch his weight that are a staple of his whether he is competing in New York or fun fishing around his house on Smith Lake in Alabama; a topwater walking bait, a Texas-rigged Senko, and a wacky-rigged Senko.

“These three rigs will catch bass from New York to Texas and everywhere in between. Smallmouth, largemouth, spotted bass… they all like it,” Lee said with a smile. “The specific area on Lake Champlain is definitely the key to my tournament so far, but I always have these three setups on the deck of my boat.”

• 1. 7-foot 6-inch heavy action Vapor Casting Rod paired with a 8:1:1 Smoke S3 baitcasting reel
     • 17-lb. Seaguar InvisX fluorocarbon
     • 1/4-ounce Tungsten weight with a 5/0 Owner Worm Hook
     • 4-inch Yamamoto Senko in perch color

1. 7-foot medium heavy Accurist topwater rod paired with a 7:3:1 Smoke S3 reel

• 1. • 50-lb. Seaguar smackdown braid tied to a Lucky Craft Gunfish
     • Swapped out the stock Gunfish hooks with Owner Stinger ST-36 #2 treble hooks (feathered back hook)

1. 7-foot Quantum Smoke spinning rod paired with a size 30 Smoke S3 spinning reel

• 20-lb Seaguar Hi-Vis Braid for his main line and a 12-lb. Tatsu fluorocarbon leader line
• Wacky / neko rigged a 4-inch perch colored Yammato Senko with a 3/32^nd ounce nail weight
• A #2 Owner Sniper Hook tied to the business end of his setup

With any luck his “juice-hole” on Lake Champlain will produce for one more day, but either way it has been a memorable week for Lee on one of his favorite fisheries.

“If they are firing in that spot it could be lights out. If not I’m going to have to keep my head down and work at ‘em, but either way its been an awesome week,” Lee said. “I had one of the most amazing two-hour stretch of fishing in my life and in a tournament against the best anglers in the world no less. I’m a blessed dude.”

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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Aug. 9, 2021) – Academy Sports + Outdoors pro Jacob Wheeler of Harrison, Tennessee, caught 32 scorable bass Monday weighing 107 pounds, 2 ounces to win the Knockout Round and advance to the final day of competition at the Major League Fishing (MLF) Bass Pro Tour Toyota Stage Six at Lake Champlain Presented by Googan Baits in Plattsburgh, New York. The final 10 anglers are now set, and competition will resume Tuesday morning with the Championship Round. Weights are zeroed, and the angler that catches the most weight will win the top prize of $100,000.

The six-day event, hosted by the Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau and the City of Plattsburgh, features the top professional anglers from around the world competing for a purse of $805,000, including a top cash prize of $100,000 to the winner.

The top eight pros from Monday’s Knockout Round that will compete in Tuesday’s Championship Round on Lake Champlain are:

1st: Jacob Wheeler, Harrison, Tenn., 32 bass, 107-2
2nd: Brent Ehrler, Redlands, Calif., 25 bass, 79-11
3rd: Bryan Thrift, Shelby, N.C., 23 bass, 69-13
4th: Jacopo Gallelli, Florence, Italy, 25 bass, 66-0
5th: Kelly Jordon, Flint, Texas, 23 bass, 58-9
6th: Ott DeFoe, Blaine, Tenn., 20 bass, 55-2
7th: Timmy Horton, Muscle Shoals, Ala., 17 bass, 53-7
8th: Wesley Strader, Spring City, Ala., 19 bass, 50-14

They’ll be joined by Qualifying Round winners:

Group A: Matt Lee, Cullman, Ala.
Group B: Justin Lucas, Guntersville, Ala.

“We had a lot of fun today, and caught a lot of bass,” Wheeler said in his post-game interview. “It feels great to reel a whole bunch of bass in. This place is unbelievable. But tomorrow is a new day and we’ve got some stiff competition ahead of us.”

Wheeler said that Monday, for him, was all about the spinning rod. He spent the day drop-shotting on his 7-foot, 2-inch medium-heavy Duckett Jacob Wheeler Signature Series rod, spooled with 8-pound Sufix Advanced Nano braid and a Size No. 2 Finesse Neko hook.

“It’s taken me a little while to dial it in, but I’m starting to understand it more and more, and Champlain is different every single week, every time I come here. I’ve realized you can’t necessarily get locked into one area. I feel like I have figured out a little bit of a pattern and I’m looking forward to getting out there tomorrow to see how it shakes out.”

Rounding out the top 37 finishers were:

11th: Brandon Coulter, Knoxville, Tenn., 19 bass, 48-3, $10,257
12th: Stephen Browning, Hot Springs, Ark., 15 bass, 46-6, $10,257
13th: James Elam, Tulsa, Okla., 14 bass, 43-6, $10,257
14th: Josh Bertrand, Queen Creek, Ariz., 13 bass, 38-5, $10,257
15th: Dave Lefebre, Erie, Pa., 13 bass, 37-14, $10,257
16th: Scott Suggs, Bryant, Ark., 12 bass, 37-14, $10,257
17th: Takahiro Omori, Tokyo, Japan, 11 bass, 35-0, $10,257
18th: Michael Neal, Dayton, Tenn., 10 bass, 34-10, $10,257
19th: David Dudley, Lynchburg, Va., 13 bass, 34-2, $10,257
20th: Andy Montgomery, Blacksburg, S.C., 13 bass, 32-8, $10,257
21st: Terry Scroggins, San Mateo, Fla., 11 bass, 30-8, $10,257
22nd: Boyd Duckett, Guntersville, Ala., 11 bass, 29-13, $10,257
23rd: Jesse Wiggins, Addison, Ala., nine bass, 28-14, $10,257
24th: John Cox, DeBary, Fla., 11 bass, 28-5, $10,257
25th: Mark Rose, Wynne, Ark., eight bass, 26-4, $10,257
26th: Andy Morgan, Dayton, Tenn., eight bass, 25-2, $10,257
27th: Shin Fukae, Osaka, Japan, seven bass, 23-4, $10,257
28th: Russ Lane, Prattville, Ala., nine bass, 22-2, $10,257
29th: Alton Jones, Lorena, Texas, seven bass, 21-4, $10,257
30th: Kevin VanDam, Kalamazoo, Mich., five bass, 15-13, $10,257
31st: Britt Myers, Lake Wylie, S.C., four bass, 13-2, $10,257
32nd: Gerald Spohrer, Gonzales, La., four bass, 12-4, $10,257
33rd: Aaron Martens, Leeds, Ala., three bass, 8-13, $10,257
34th: Alton Jones Jr., Waco, Texas, three bass, 7-1, $10,257
35th: Mark Davis, Mount Ida, Ark., two bass, 7-1, $10,257
36th: Jeff Sprague, Point, Texas, three bass, 6-14, $10,257
37th: Skeet Reese, Auburn, Calif., zero bass, 0-0, $10,257

A complete list of results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 422 bass weighing 1,235 pounds, 6 ounces caught by the 35 pros on Monday.

Stephen Browning won Sunday’s $1,000 Berkley Big Bass Award with a 5-pound, 4-ounce largemouth that came on a vibrating jig during Period 3. Berkley awards $1,000 to the angler that weighs the biggest bass each day, and a $3,000 bonus to the angler who weighs the largest bass of the tournament.

The Toyota Stage Six at Lake Champlain Presented by Googan Baits features anglers competing with a 2-pound minimum weight requirement for a bass to be deemed scorable. Minimum weights are determined individually for each competition waters that the Bass Pro Tour visits, based on the productivity, bass population and anticipated average size of fish in each fishery.

MLF announced earlier this week that the normal 80-angler Bass Pro Tour field would be reduced to 73 for this event, as seven anglers withdrew from competition for undisclosed reasons. After consulting with the MLF Angler Advisory Board, a slight change was made to the Qualifying Round Toro Cut Lines due to the unbalanced angler groupings.

The 34 Anglers in Group A competed in their two-day qualifying round on Lake Champlain on Thursday and Saturday – the 39 anglers in Group B on Friday and Sunday. After the two-day qualifying round the anglers that finish in 2nd through 17th place from Group A (50% of field) and 2nd through 20th place from Group B (50% of field) advanced to Monday’s Knockout Round. In the Knockout Round, weights were zeroed and the remaining 35 anglers competed to finish in the top 8 to advance to the Championship Round. Tomorrow, in the final day Championship Round, weights are zeroed and the highest one-day total wins the top prize of $100,000.

Anglers will take off from the Plattsburgh City Marina, located at 2 Dock St., in Plattsburgh, at 8 a.m. ET each day of competition. Each day’s General Tire Takeout will also be held at the Launch Ramp, beginning at 5 p.m. Fans are welcome to attend all takeoff and takeout ceremonies and also encouraged to follow the event online throughout the day on the MLF NOW!® live stream and SCORETRACKER® coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

MLF officials have divided the lake into two zones in which anglers will compete – Zone A (north end of lake) and Zone B (south end of lake – Ticonderoga area). Anglers choosing to fish in Zone B must go through the normal takeoff procedure at the Plattsburgh Boat Launch and then trailer to a public ramp within Zone B. Anglers will depart the Boat Launch at 8 a.m., and competition will start with “lines in” at 9 a.m.

The Bass Pro Tour features a field of 76 of the top professional anglers in the world – joined at each event by 4 pros that qualify from the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit – competing across seven regular-season tournaments around the country, competing for millions of dollars and valuable points to qualify for the annual Heavy Hitters all-star event and the REDCREST 2022 championship.

The MLF NOW!® broadcast team of Chad McKee, Marty Stone and J.T. Kenney will break down the extended action on all six days of competition from 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET. MLF NOW!® will be live streamed on MajorLeagueFishing.com and the MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) app.

Television coverage of the Toyota Stage Six at Lake Champlain Presented by Googan Baits will premiere at 7 a.m. ET, Nov. 6 on the Discovery Channel. New MLF episodes premiere each Saturday morning on the Discovery Channel, with additional re-airings on the Outdoor Channel and the Sportsman Channel. Each two-hour long reality-based episode goes in-depth to break down each day of competition.

For complete details and updated information on the Bass Pro Tour, 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
Major League Fishing (MLF) is the world’s largest tournament-fishing organization, producing more than 250 events annually at some of the most prestigious fisheries in the world, while broadcasting to America’s living rooms on CBS, the Discovery Channel, the Outdoor Channel, CBS Sports Network, the World Fishing Network, the Sportsman Channel and on-demand on MyOutdoorTV (MOTV). Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with offices in Benton, Kentucky, the MLF roster of bass anglers includes the world’s top pros and more than 30,000 competitors in all 50 states and 13 countries. In 2019 MLF acquired FLW and rebranded it as MLF BIG5, which expanded its portfolio of catch, weigh and immediate release events to include the sport’s strongest five-biggest-fish format tournament circuits. Since its founding in 2011, MLF has advanced the sport of competitive fishing through its premier television broadcasts and livestreams, and is dedicated to improving the quality of life for bass through research, education, fisheries enhancement and fish care.

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Jacob Wheeler finished today in 3rd place in Group B’s Qualifying Round of Toyota Stage 6 of the Bass Pro Tour on Lake Champlain; sending him to yet another Knockout Round. The Team Toyota pro is fresh off his second Bass Pro Tour win of the season on the St. Lawrence River and would love nothing more than to win back-to-back events here in New York.

If you’ve been paying attention to professional bass fishing the past several years, you already know the 31-year old Indiana native is a once-in-a-lifetime type talent on the water. One of the things that makes Wheeler so tough to beat is his cerebral nature.

He is constantly considering different strategies during competition, not just different ways to catch a bass, but factoring in the different rounds of a Bass Pro Tour event. Weighing the positives and negatives of potential off-days, incoming weather patterns, and always striving to put himself in the absolute best position to come away with a victory.

As Wheeler charged up the SCORETRACKER, catching over 58-pounds of Champlain bass and posting the heaviest weight of the day, these variables were certainly running through his mind.

“I was starting to make up some serious ground on the leaders and about half way through the day I decided I needed to try and win the Round,” Wheeler explained. “The area I was catching them the best in today is vulnerable to the wind and strong winds are forecasted for the Knockout Round. I hate to burn up fish if I don’t need to, but with that knowledge I wanted to push and see what would happen.”

Wheeler is predominantly targeting smallmouth, which have been unusually fickle this week during Stage 6 for every angler not named Justin Lucas. When Wheeler found a large group of smallies and began quickly stacking weight today, he knew he needed to put the pedal down in hopes of avoiding heavier winds expected for the Knockout Round.

That kind of intuition is not something you can learn without competing in hundreds of tournaments, spending thousands of hours working on your craft. Whether we are talking about this tournament or the previous five Stages, Wheeler isn’t out there just to catch every bass he possibly can. He is extremely calculated when it comes to managing spots, areas, and fish. Wheeler is playing chess, not checkers on the Bass Pro Tour.

Unfortunately for J. Wheels, both Justin Lucas and Brandon Coulter both had 50+ pound days today, too. They were sitting in first and second going into today and were able to out pace him in the end.

“I lost a couple good fish with about 30 minutes to go today that kind of took the wind out of my sails,” Wheeler said. “I still had a little over ten pounds to make up and with time getting low, I decided to back off. The wind might totally jack me up out there tomorrow but it could fire the fish up, too. I really don’t know, but we’re going to find out tomorrow.”

He may not have been able to chase down Justin Lucas today to win the Qualifying Round, but advancing to the Knockout Round continues his incredible 2021 season. Wheeler currently sits in third place in the overall Points Title race and is continuously factoring that title into his tournament equation as well.

Anything can happen in both this event and the Points Title campaign, but with the way Wheeler has been fishing this year it would be hard to bet against him.

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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (Aug. 8, 2021) – It was a back-and-forth battle at the top for pretty much the entire third period Sunday between pros Brandon Coulter of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Berkley pro Justin Lucas of Guntersville, Alabama, at the Toyota Stage Six at Lake Champlain Presented by Googan Baits in Plattsburgh, New York.

The duo traded the lead back and forth five times during Period 3, before Lucas boated a 3-pound, 13-ounce smallmouth with 60 minutes left in the round to pull away and win the two-day Qualifying Round for Group B. Lucas’ two-day total of 31 bass weighing 101 pounds, 10 ounces earned him the victory by a slim 9-ounce margin over Coulter and advances him directly into Tuesday’s final-day Championship Round of competition.

Coulter caught a two-day total of 41 bass weighing 101 pounds, 1 ounce to finish the day in second place. In third place on the SCORETRACKER® leaderboard is Academy Sports + Outdoors pro Jacob Wheeler of Harrison, Tennessee, who caught 32 bass weighing 89-14. Hot Springs, Arkansas’ Stephen Browning, who caught a two-day total of 29 bass totaling 82-13, and Polaris pro David Dudley of Lynchburg Virginia , who boated 28 bass weighing 79-6 rounded out the top five finishers in the round.

The remaining 35 anglers – 16 from Group A and 19 from Group B – will now compete Monday in the Knockout Round, where weights are zeroed, and the anglers compete to finish in the top eight to advance to Championship Wednesday. Tuesday’s Championship Round will feature Group A winner Matt Lee, Group B winner Justin Lucas, and the top eight anglers from the Knockout Round competing in a final-day shootout for the top prize of $100,000.

“That was a hard fight and was a lot of fun. I can’t believe we won it, honestly,” Lucas said in his post-game interview. “I felt like things weren’t really going our way, today, but I ended up catching more fish than the first day. And to win by just 9 ounces – that was insane.”

Like Friday, the majority of Lucas’ catch on Sunday came from drop-shotting deep-water smallmouth.

“I caught two key fish on a swimbait today, and 16 more on a Berkley (PowerBait Max Scent) Flat Worm,” Lucas said. “I worked my fricking butt off. I am beat bad, and I am really looking to a day off. I’ve got to get my stuff together, it’s a disaster right now.”

The top 19 pros from Qualifying Group A that now advance to Monday’s Knockout Round on Lake Champlain are:

1st: Justin Lucas, Guntersville, Ala., 31 bass, 101-10 – ADVANCES DIRECTLY TO CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND
2nd: Brandon Coulter, Knoxville, Tenn., 41 bass, 101-1
3th: Jacob Wheeler, Harrison, Tenn., 32 bass, 89-14
4th: Stephen Browning, Hot Springs, Ark., 29 bass, 82-13
5th: David Dudley, Lynchburg, Va., 28 bass, 79-6
6rd: Jeff Sprague, Point, Texas, 28 bass, 77-9
7th: Jesse Wiggins, Addison, Ala., 24 bass, 76-3
8th: Andy Morgan, Dayton, Tenn., 23 bass, 73-1
9th: Kelly Jordon, Flint, Texas, 23 bass, 66-8
10th: Mark Rose, Wynne, Ark., 20 bass, 64-1
11th: Josh Bertrand, Queen Creek, Ariz., 21 bass, 62-5
12th: Alton Jones, Lorena, Texas, 21 bass, 60-12
13th: Brent Ehrler, Redlands, Calif., 18 bass, 58-10
14th: Russ Lane, Prattville, Ala., 20 bass, 58-1
15th: Wesley Strader, Spring City, Tenn., 21 bass, 55-13
16th: Boyd Duckett, Guntersville, Ala., 18 bass, 54-5
17th: Skeet Reese, Auburn, Calif., 18 bass, 50-12
18th: Kevin VanDam, Kalamazoo, Mich., 18 bass, 50-3
19th: Mark Davis, Mount Ida, Ark., 18 bass, 49-9
20th: Alton Jones Jr., Waco, Texas, 17 bass, 49-1

Finishing in 21st through 39th in the Group B Qualifying Round were:

21st: Casey Ashley, Donalds, S.C., 17 bass, 49-0
22nd: Jordan Lee, Cullman, Ala., 16 bass, 46-2
23rd: Roy Hawk, Lake Havasu City, Ariz., 14 bass, 42-6
24th: Cliff Crochet, Pierre Part, La., 14 bass, 42-0
25th: Cody Meyer, Star, Idaho, 13 bass, 38-10
26th: Shaw Grigsby, Gainesville, Fla., 14 bass, 38-4
27th: Jonathon VanDam, Kalamazoo, Mich., 13 bass, 38-2
28th: Greg Vinson, Wetumpka, Ala., 11 bass, 34-12
29th: Todd Faircloth, Jasper, Texas, 13 bass, 34-8
30th: Adrian Avena, Vineland, N.J., 12 bass, 33-8
31st: Jeff Kriet, Ardmore, Okla., 12 bass, 32-5
32nd: Keith Poche, Pike Road, Ala., 13 bass, 31-3
33rd: Ricky Robinson, Greenback, Tenn., 11 bass, 31-3
34th: Justin Cooper, Zwolle, La., 11 bass, 29-14
35th: Paul Elias, Laurel, Miss., 10 bass, 29-12
36th: Dean Rojas, Lake Havasu City, Ariz., 10 bass, 27-6
37th: Marty Robinson, Lyman, S.C., 10 bass, 26-2
38th: Ish Monroe, Oakdale, Calif., 10 bass, 25-0
39th: Bradley Roy, Lancaster, Ky., seven bass, 24-12

A complete list of results can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 380 bass weighing 1,097 pounds, 10 ounces caught by the 39 pros on Sunday.

Kelly Jordon won Sunday’s $1,000 Berkley Big Bass Award with a 5-pound, 9-ounce bass that came on a frog during Period 1. Berkley awards $1,000 to the angler that weighs the biggest bass each day, and a $3,000 bonus to the angler who weighs the largest bass of the tournament.

The MLF Bass Pro Tour Toyota Stage Six at Lake Champlain Presented by Googan Baits is hosted by the Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau and the City of Plattsburgh.

MLF announced earlier this week that the normal 80-angler Bass Pro Tour field would be reduced to 73 for this event, as seven anglers withdrew from competition for undisclosed reasons. After consulting with the MLF Angler Advisory Board, a slight change was made to the Qualifying Round Toro Cut Lines due to the unbalanced angler groupings.

The 34 Anglers in Group A competed in their two-day qualifying round on Lake Champlain on Thursday and Saturday – the 39 anglers in Group B on Friday and Sunday. Now that each two-day qualifying round is complete, the anglers that finish in 2nd through 17th place from Group A (50% of field) and 2nd through 20th place from Group B (50% of field) advance to Monday’s Knockout Round, while the winner of each group advances directly to Tuesday’s Championship Round. In the Knockout Round, weights are zeroed and the remaining 35 anglers compete to finish in the top 8 to advance to the Championship Round. In the final day Championship Round, weights are zeroed and the highest one-day total wins the top prize of $100,000.

Anglers will take off from the Plattsburgh City Marina, located at 2 Dock St., in Plattsburgh, at 8 a.m. ET each day of competition. Each day’s General Tire Takeout will also be held at the Launch Ramp, beginning at 5 p.m. Fans are welcome to attend all takeoff and takeout ceremonies and also encouraged to follow the event online throughout the day on the MLF NOW!® live stream and SCORETRACKER® coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

MLF officials have divided the lake into two zones in which anglers will compete – Zone A (north end of lake) and Zone B (south end of lake – Ticonderoga area). Anglers choosing to fish in Zone B must go through the normal takeoff procedure at the Plattsburgh Boat Launch and then trailer to a public ramp within Zone B. Anglers will depart the Boat Launch at 8 a.m., and competition will start with “lines in” at 9 a.m.

The Toyota Stage Six at Lake Champlain Presented by Googan Baits features anglers competing with a 2-pound minimum weight requirement for a bass to be deemed scorable. Minimum weights are determined individually for each competition waters that the Bass Pro Tour visits, based on the productivity, bass population and anticipated average size of fish in each fishery.

The Bass Pro Tour features a field of 76 of the top professional anglers in the world – joined at each event by 4 pros that qualify from the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit – competing across seven regular-season tournaments around the country, competing for millions of dollars and valuable points to qualify for the annual Heavy Hitters all-star event and the REDCREST 2022 championship.

The MLF NOW!® broadcast team of Chad McKee, Marty Stone and J.T. Kenney will break down the extended action on all six days of competition from 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET. MLF NOW!® will be live streamed on MajorLeagueFishing.com and the MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) app.

Television coverage of the Toyota Stage Six at Lake Champlain Presented by Googan Baits will premiere at 7 a.m. ET, Nov. 6 on the Discovery Channel. New MLF episodes premiere each Saturday morning on the Discovery Channel, with additional re-airings on the Outdoor Channel and the Sportsman Channel. Each two-hour long reality-based episode goes in-depth to break down each day of competition.

For complete details and updated information on the Bass Pro Tour, 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
Major League Fishing (MLF) is the world’s largest tournament-fishing organization, producing more than 250 events annually at some of the most prestigious fisheries in the world, while broadcasting to America’s living rooms on CBS, the Discovery Channel, the Outdoor Channel, CBS Sports Network, the World Fishing Network, the Sportsman Channel and on-demand on MyOutdoorTV (MOTV). Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with offices in Benton, Kentucky, the MLF roster of bass anglers includes the world’s top pros and more than 30,000 competitors in all 50 states and 13 countries. In 2019 MLF acquired FLW and rebranded it as MLF BIG5, which expanded its portfolio of catch, weigh and immediate release events to include the sport’s strongest five-biggest-fish format tournament circuits. Since its founding in 2011, MLF has advanced the sport of competitive fishing through its premier television broadcasts and livestreams, and is dedicated to improving the quality of life for bass through research, education, fisheries enhancement and fish care.

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