EUFAULA, Okla. (June 7, 2026) – Starting the final day of Stop 5 Presented by K&N Filters in third place, Banks Shaw looked like the odds-on favorite to win. While Cal Lane and Drew Boggs had the edge by weight and place, environmental factors well outside their control didn’t look good. The deluge of rain on Day 2 affected all the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech pros, but Lane and Boggs were fishing shallow, well up a creek that rose higher and flowed faster by the minute.

On the main lake and fishing for more stable fish, Shaw didn’t have those same concerns. After sacking up 20 pounds, 6 ounces to jump into contention on Day 2, he followed up with an even 18 pounds on Day 3 for a 52-10 total and the win. Also walloping them on Day 3, Dylan Nutt moved up to finish second with 51-12 for the second event in a row, and Lane and Boggs fell to third and fourth, respectively.

For the win, which was his second Pro Circuit win of the season, Shaw pocketed $100,000. He also moved into the 7 Brew Angler of the Year lead, and with a 13-point edge over Ryan Lachniet, he’ll look to go back-to-back. The winner of the Invitationals Angler of the Year in 2025, Shaw stands a great chance to close it out when the Pro Circuit regular season finishes up at Lake Champlain in July.

Shaw better every time out
In 2025, it was possible to find chinks in Shaw’s armor if you used a magnifying glass, and this year on the Bass Pro Tour, he’s looked mortal several times. But fishing for five, especially when the fish are headed toward a summer pattern, Shaw is very hard to handle. This week at Eufaula (a lake he’d never fished before), he showed off all his skills yet again.

Shaw weighed two fish without the aid of forward-facing sonar: one on Day 1 and one big one on Day 3. He buoyed his weights with a shad spawn.

“I committed the entire [morning] to a shad spawn,” he said. “I was catching some good ones off a gizzard spawn. I committed to a Z-Man ChatterBait JackHammer Baby Jack in golden shiner, with a 4.25 Rapala CrushCity Freeloader in gizzard shad.

“It was isolated rockpiles; it seemed like if I could find rock in an area where there wasn’t a lot of rock, it was a guarantee,” he added. “I didn’t realize it was a gizzard shad spawn until the first day of the tournament – I caught them there really good the last day of practice. Then, the first day, gizzards were following me to the boat and bumping my ChatterBait pretty much every cast.”

Shaw and a lot of the other top anglers who ran a sonar-heavy gameplan saved their three hours until later in the morning, or even the afternoon in some cases. It was the right strategy for the week, but it was also a little nerve-racking if the morning wasn’t going well.

“It was definitely a key player,” Shaw explained. “I was able to catch a few fish each day to settle me down. This place changes so much; you can stumble and not catch a limit even when you’re around them.”

Once Shaw fired up his sonar, he fished brush in Longtown and near the dam, staying pretty deep on brush and using a 3/16-ounce VMC Redline Tungsten Swimbait Jighead with a 5 3/4-inch Rapala CrushCity Freeloader in green shad. He threw his minnow on a 6-foot, 10-inch, medium-light 13 Fishing Myth, with 8-pound-test Sufix 832 braid and a 14-pound-test Sufix Advance Fluorocarbon leader.

“I stayed out a little deeper than most guys,” Shaw detailed. “I caught some fish in 15 foot, but a lot of them were out in 20 foot – they weren’t even there in practice. I weighed eight fish over the last two days running new water.
“You could pull up to a brush pile and most people would see all the crappie and everything and not really see the bass. But if you slowed down and dissected everything, the bass would be sitting somewhere around them.”

Using his forward-facing sonar time later in the day was key for Shaw, but he also was able to gamble a little more effectively than some. All three days, he fished both Longtown and the Porum area during his sonar period.

“After fishing the BPT, a 20-minute run doesn’t bother me much anymore,” he said. “That’s what I did at Wheeler. I’ll take a gamble. A lot of guys think they need to stay in the same area, because three hours isn’t a lot. After fishing the BPT, having to catch so many in two and a half hours, if I know I could run a good ways and get around fish that are biting or not going to be pressured, I’m going to do it.”

Going for it all at Champlain
With three major wins under his belt already this year and three Top 10s on the BPT, he’s in the midst of another incredible year. In this one, after a tough Day 1, Shaw never laid up and got the win because of it.

“I feel a lot better now than I was feeling after the first day,” he said. “I made the call today to make a 20-minute run during my forward-facing period, and it definitely worked out. I ran way down the lake and I caught 4-pounder and a 3-pounder and definitely sealed the deal.”

He’s also pretty excited about what is next, and he’s already contemplating a pre-practice run up the Champlain.

“To be going into the next event in the lead for AOY with two wins under my belt already, the pressure is going to be on these guys,” he said. “They’re going to have to run me down. I’m going to be as consistent as I can be, and I love it up there. I couldn’t describe the feeling to go back-to-back for Angler of the Year, and to win two tournaments – it’d be pretty special.”

The top 20 pros at the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Stop 5 on Lake Eufaula Presented by K&N Filters finished:

1st:        Banks Shaw, Harrison, Tenn., 15 bass, 52-10, $100,000
2nd:      Dylan Nutt, Nashville, Tenn., 15 bass, 51-12, $23,000
3rd:       Cal Lane, Grant, Ala., 15 bass, 51-7, $18,700
4th:       Drew Boggs, Lebanon, Tenn., 15 bass, 50-10, $17,000
5th:       Drew Gill, Mount Carmel, Ill., 15 bass, 50-9, $16,100
6th:       Tripp Berlinsky, St. Cloud, Fla., 15 bass, 49-7, $15,200
7th:       Ryan Lachniet, Gum Spring, Va., 15 bass, 48-14, $14,400
8th:       Riley Nielsen, Murray, Utah, 15 bass, 47-13, $13,500
9th:       Connor Jacob, Peoria, Ill., 15 bass, 46-0, $12,600
10th:     Austin Pemberton, Tuscola, Texas, 15 bass, 45-12, $11,800
11th:     Ethan Fields, Breese, Ill., 15 bass, 45-1, $10,000
12th:     Levi Thibodaux, Thibodaux, La., 15 bass, 44-13, $10,000
13th:     Ty Faber, Pagosa Springs, Colo., 15 bass, 44-6, $10,000
14th:     Hayden O’Barr, Scottsboro, Ala., 15 bass, 44-4, $10,000
15th:     Brody Campbell, Oxford, Ohio, 15 bass, 44-1, $10,000
16th:     Bobby Bakewell, Orlando, Fla., 15 bass, 43-0, $10,000
17th:     Levi Kohl, Edinburg, Ill., 15 bass, 42-9, $10,000
18th:     Matt Becker, Ten Mile, Tenn., 15 bass, 42-2, $10,000
19th:     Matteo Turano, Puryear, Tenn., 15 bass, 42-2, $10,000
20th:     Will Harkins, Blairsville, Ga., 15 bass, 41-6, $10,000

Complete results for the entire field can be found at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

Overall, there were 174 bass weighing 486 pounds, 5 ounces caught by the final 43 pros Sunday. The catch included 29 five-bass limits.

The full field of pros competed in the two-day opening round on Friday and Saturday in a five-fish, weigh-in format. Only the top third of the field – 43 pros in this event – based on their two-day cumulative weight, advanced to the final round on Championship Sunday. The winner was determined by heaviest cumulative weight from all three days and awarded the grand prize of up to $135,000.

Television coverage of the MLF Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech Stop 5 on Lake Eufaula Presented by K&N Filters will air as a two-hour episode, premiering at 9 a.m. ET, on Saturday, Oct. 4 on Vice TV.

The 2026 Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech features a field of up to 150 professional anglers competing across six tournaments around the country, for a total purse of $3.8 million and valuable 7 Brew Angler of the Year (AOY) points to qualify for the Pro Circuit Championship, set for Sept. 18-20 on the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes in Kissimmee, Florida, and a coveted spot on the MLF Bass Pro Tour – the sport’s premier circuit.

The next event for the 2026 MLF Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech is Stop 6 at Lake Champlain, July 24-26 in Plattsburgh, New York.

Proud sponsors of the 2026 MLF Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech include: 7 Brew, Abu Garcia, Athletic Brewing, B&W Trailer Hitches, Berkley, Black Buffalo, Bubba, Cigars International, Epic Baits, Grizzly, Mercury, MillerTech, OFF! Deep Woods, Onyx, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Phoenix Boats, PirahnO2, Power-Pole, Precision Sonar, Suzuki Marine, Tackle Warehouse, T-H Marine, Toyota, VOSKER, YETI and Yuengling.

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