PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (July 13, 2026) – The sixth and final regular-season stop of the 2026 Major League Fishing (MLF) Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech season is set to take place July 24-26, in Plattsburgh, New York, with the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Stop 6 on Lake Champlain Presented by VOSKER.

The three-day Pro Circuit event, hosted by the City of Plattsburgh and the Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau, will feature a roster of up to 150 pro bass anglers competing for a top prize of up to $135,000. Anglers will take to Lake Champlain to catch their five biggest bass each day, and the winner will be determined by the heaviest three-day cumulative total.

“We’re proud to partner with Major League Fishing to showcase Lake Champlain and welcome anglers, families and fans to our region,” said Alyssa Senecal, Assistant Director of Tourism and Marketing for the Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau. “Events like this highlight not only world-class fishing but also the outstanding communities and businesses that make this area such a special destination.”

Surrounded by the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains, Lake Champlain offers stellar fishing and great scenery, but in this event, that will not be the focus. As the last event of the season, the 7 Brew Angler of the Year title will be decided, five pros will qualify for the Bass Pro Tour, and the top 40 will lock in their spots in the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Championship. All those points considerations mean that every ounce counts, and there are not many lakes where those ounces matter more than Lake Champlain.

The last time MLF held a major event in Plattsburgh, when the Tackle Warehouse Invitationals visited Champlain in June 2024, pro Jacob Walker won by catching all smallmouth on a minnow, with most of the top-10 finishers also minnowing up smallmouth. Typically, June on Champlain would feature a big-time spawning smallmouth event, but that was not the case in 2024. Pros Kurt Mitchell and Hunter Eubanks also made the top 10 with shallow patterns targeting northern largemouth.

In July 2024, Kyle Cortiana won the Toyota Series event on Champlain with a 64-1 total, and he did it mostly fishing current at the Malletts Bay causeway. Heavy rains during practice dramatically affected the event, scattering some smallmouth in the Inland Sea and creating an incredible current bite. Notably, Mitchell again finished in the top 10 by targeting northern largemouth, this time joined by Bryan LaBelle and Tom Lavictoire Jr.

In 2025, the Toyota Series event on Champlain was held in June, and Tucker Smith won by targeting smallmouth with a minnow. By this point, the trend should be clear.

There are, however, some recent exceptions to the trend of minnow and smallmouth domination.

In August 2024, Ed Loughran won a Bassmaster Elite Series event on Lake Champlain – bucking the trend after a summer of minnow madness. Running south to target mid-lake largemouth, he fished shallow and edged ahead of the pack. Also, as a general rule of thumb, local events on Champlain have featured a lot of largemouth lately – maybe easier to do in one-day events, but also a sign of a burgeoning population.

This time around, the 2024 Angler of the Year and Rookie of the Year on the Invitationals and a Champlain ace, Alec Morrison of Peru, New York, expects an excellent tournament.

“The No. 1 thing is going to be postspawn smallmouth,” Morrison said. “I’m sure a lot of them will be hanging around grass and mid-range, and primarily chasing bait by the end of July.”

In a tournament without restrictions on sonar use, a standard game plan on Champlain might be to spend the entire day targeting roaming smallmouth. But Morrison isn’t sure that is viable without forward-facing sonar.

“Three hours is a decent amount of time to get them to bite,” he said. “But, I really do feel like that is something you can’t really target without forward-facing. The ones on grass and rock, more midrange or shallower, those might be the ones to target during the off time.”

The other player is largemouth, and Morrison expects at least two pros to make the Top 10 from Ticonderoga, and perhaps others to do it with northern largemouth.

“I’m sure largemouth are going to play,” Morrison said. “A lot of it depends on our water levels. Generally, in low water years, the largemouth fishing is a little tougher. The more water, the better the largemouth fishing will be.”

Anglers will launch at 6:30 a.m. ET each day from the Plattsburgh City Marina, located at 5 Dock St. in Plattsburgh, New York. Weigh-ins will also be held at the Plattsburgh City Marina and will begin at 2:30 p.m. Fans are welcome to attend all launch and weigh-in events and also encouraged to follow the event online throughout the day on the MLFNOW!® live stream and coverage at MajorLeagueFishing.com.

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.

In Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit competition, the full field of pros competes in the two-day opening round Friday and Saturday in a five-fish, weigh-in format. Only the top 50 pros, based on their two-day cumulative weight, advance to the final round on Championship Sunday. The winner is determined by the heaviest cumulative weight from all three days and they will be awarded the grand prize of up to $135,000. Forward-facing and/or 360-degree sonar is limited to only 3 hours of competition each day.

The MLFNOW! broadcast team of Chad McKee and Rob Newell will break down the extended action live all three days of competition from 7 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. ET. MLFNOW! will be livestreamed on MajorLeagueFishing.com, the MyOutdoorTV (MOTV) app and Rumble.

Television coverage of the MLF Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Presented by MillerTech Stop 6 on Lake Champlain Presented by VOSKER will air as a two-hour episode, premiering at 9 a.m. ET, on Sunday, Oct. 11 on VICE TV.

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, PiranhO2, Power-Pole, Precision Sonar, Suzuki Marine, Tackle Warehouse, T-H Marine, Toyota, VOSKER, YETI and Yuengling.

For complete details and updated information, visit MajorLeagueFishing.com. For regular Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit updates, photos, tournament news and more, follow the MLF5 social media outlets at Facebook, 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, Discovery, Outdoor Channel, VICE, World Fishing Network, RFD-TV, Game & Fish TV and Rumble, and on demand on MyOutdoorTV (MOTV). Headquartered 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 20 countries. 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.