The sixth and final episode of the Major League Fishing (MLF) 2020 General Tire World Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops – the Championship Round – will premiere Saturday (Nov. 14) at 7 a.m. EST on Discovery. The episode will feature the final six anglers competing on Northern Minnesota’s Spider Lake, with weights zeroed and the angler with the highest total weight at the end of the episode declared World Champion.
Shot over six days in late July in Grand Rapids, the event showcased 16 of the top MLF pro anglers culminating the 2020 Cup season and competing for the prestigious Johnny Morris Award trophy and the top prize of $100,000.
The six anglers competing Saturday on Discovery in the final day Championship Round are Casey Ashley, Edwin Evers, Jordan Lee, Cody Meyer, Takahiro Omori and Jacob Powroznik.
“Spider Lake is the perfect old-school, Major League Fishing twist,” said Marty Stone, MLF director of event research and program analyst. “The lake is small – just a touch over 1,000 acres – and there are three docks on the entire lake, and one of them is at the ramp. So, everything that these guys have learned about the boat docks in this event, you can throw out. They’re going to see each other – a lot. There are more largemouth in Spider Lake than anywhere else on the whole chain of lakes, and the lake is literally vegetation from one end to the next.
“It’s a northern lake, so of course there will be some smallmouth there. But if a guy is trying to fish offshore, they’ve got about 4 or 5 spots total to hit and that’s it. The key is going to be fishing the bank – the reeds, the lily pads, the shallow coontail and cabbage – and trying to get the bigger largemouth to trigger. The angler who can figure that out is going to win this event and be crowned our 2020 World Champion.”
