Major League Fishing announced today that it recently completed the filming of the General Tire Summit Cup, a 6-day competition in the Waterville, Me. area. It was the first of two events to be shot this fall.
The Maine event will be broadcast on Outdoor Channel beginning in January 2015.
“We’ve had a fantastic event in central Maine, which is an absolutely beautiful area of the country," said MLF commissioner Don Rucks. "And when people see the Summit Cup television program and the competition that our anglers produced, I believe they’re going to want to go to Maine.
“Every day we had a compelling story. And, as you might expect, our anglers smashed them.”
The Summit Cup field features the 24 Cup series MLF anglers, plus six competitors who qualified via daily titles they won during MLF Select competition.
Two Major League Fishing Select events were held earlier this year, in Muskogee, Okla., and Benton, Ark. The Muskogee Select event - the Summit Select - will be available in October on a web-based format and also in January 2015 on Outdoor Channel.
The 24 Cup anglers are: Tommy Biffle, Denny Brauer, Mark Davis, Boyd Duckett, Brent Ehrler, Edwin Evers, Shaw Grigsby, Greg Hackney, Tim Horton, Mike Iaconelli, Alton Jones, Kelly Jordon, Gary Klein, Jeff Kriet, Bobby Lane, Aaron Martens, Mike McClelland, Ish Monroe, Takahiro Omori, Jason Quinn, Dean Rojas, Skeet Reese, Kevin VanDam and Byron Velvick.
