Major League Fishing (MLF) recently wrapped production at the 2020 General Tire World Championship event in Grand Rapids, Minn.
event, hosted by Visit Grand Rapids and filmed entirely for television broadcast, was shot over 6 days in late July and featured 16 anglers culminating their MLF Cup season as they compete for the top prize of $100,000. The league previously visited the area to film the 2017 MLF Summit Cup event.
“We had a fantastic, record-breaking catch when MLF visited the area in 2017 and it made the decision to return for our World Championship event a no-brainer,” said Marty Stone, director of event research and program analyst for Major League Fishing. “There is such a great mixture of fisheries in this area. Deep-water fishing, shallow-water fishing, largemouth or smallmouth, these northern lakes seem to have it all. It was a great week of fishing for our anglers and I can’t wait to watch it all play out on the Discovery Channel later this fall.”
The six-episode, 2-hour series features the professional anglers visiting northern Minnesota to compete on four different fisheries across the region, including Pokegama Lake, Wabana Lake, Turtle Lake, and Spider Lake. The fisheries are unknown to the anglers prior to competing. An aspect of MLF Cup competition is the anglers do not learn where they are competing until they arrive to the launch ramp each morning of competition, which makes bait selection and electronics pre-event research less of a factor in MLF Cups.
The 16 anglers who competed were: Casey Ashley, Brent Ehrler, Edwin Evers, Bobby Lane, Jordan Lee, Jared Lintner, Aaron Martens, Cody Meyer, Andy Montgomery, Michael Neal, Takahiro Omori, Jacob Powroznik, Mark Rose, Jeff Sprague, Greg Vinson and Jacob Wheeler. For more information on the qualifying process, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com/MLF-101.
The World Championship will air on the Discovery Channel as six, 2-hour original episodes each Saturday morning starting Oct. 10, airing from 7 to 9 a.m. EDT. The full television schedule can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com/tv-schedule.
