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Tournament Bass, Walleye & Inshore-Redfish Waters 2026 — BASS / MLF / FLW / IFA Venues

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41 of the highest-profile US tournament waters — bass and walleye reservoirs across the BASS / MLF / FLW circuits plus the Gulf-coast and Atlantic inshore flats on the IFA Redfish Tour — cross-referenced to their state special-regulation overlay. Each venue links to the water-body page where the actual 2026slot limit, bag override, and gear restriction live — because what wins a four-day event isn't the schedule, it's the rule that governs the day.

Schedules and circuit divisions shift year to year — we deliberately do not publish dates. Each entry below lists the typical season window plus a deep-link to the official BASS / MLF / FLW schedule page for current-year confirmation.

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41 venues

Months derived from the typical season window each circuit lists for a venue (e.g. “Spring (March – April)” → Mar, Apr). Use this to plan a tournament-week trip; confirm current-year dates on the official BASS / MLF / FLW schedule page linked per section below.

BASS — Bassmaster Elite Series & Opens27 venues

Official BASS — Bassmaster Elite Series & Opens schedule →

MLF — Bass Pro Tour / Pro Circuit / Toyota Series29 venues

Official MLF — Bass Pro Tour / Pro Circuit / Toyota Series schedule →

FLW (now MLF Toyota Series)1 venue

Official FLW (now MLF Toyota Series) schedule →

IFA — Redfish Tour (inshore-saltwater divisions)6 venues

Official IFA — Redfish Tour (inshore-saltwater divisions) schedule →

Watch closures before any non-refundable entry

Tournament anglers pay non-refundable entry fees, book lodging months out, and trailer rigs across state lines for events on these waters. A state DFW emergency order — drought-driven slot revisions, harmful-algal-bloom suspensions, summer hoot-owl closures, run-count harvest pauses — can override the booklet without warning and either close the water or change which fish count for weigh-in. Below are direct emergency-order channels for the 17 of 17tournament-venue states that publish them.

Emergency-order feeds — 17 of 17 tournament-venue states · 48 email sign-ups

How to read this index

  • This is a pilot: 41 marquee venues across the BASS, MLF, and FLW (now MLF Toyota Series) bass / walleye circuits plus the IFA Redfish Tour inshore-saltwater divisions (Texas, Louisiana, Florida). Coverage expands with the underlying water-body index — see all special-regulation waters.
  • We list typical season windows and the recurring circuit (Elite Series, Bass Pro Tour, Pro Circuit, Toyota Series, Opens) — not current-year tournament dates. The official circuit schedule page (linked per section above) is canonical for current-year stops.
  • Each venue card deep-links to the water-body's special-regulation page, where the slot limit, bag override, and gear restriction live — those are the rules that actually count weights at scale, and they don't change with the schedule.
  • Reciprocity and boundary-water arrangements (Lake Texoma TX/OK, Lake Champlain NY/VT, Falcon TX/Mexico) require the right licence pair — see border-water reciprocity before launching.

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