08/22/2026
🏆THE 2026 TRIFECTA CHALLENGE IS OFFICIALLY IN THE BOOKS! 🏆
And Mother Nature definitely made these crews work for it.
The boats that hit Lake Michigan for the final leg faced some tough conditions, but they battled it out, brought fish to the scales, and gave us one heck of a finish to the 2026 Church Tackle & Tackle Haven Trifecta Challenge.
🔥 FINAL LEG — TOURNAMENT #3
🥇 SALMON EXPRESS III — 73.84 lbs
🥈 TITAN — 58.85 lbs
🥉 FUHGETABOWDIT — 58.32 lbs
And Salmon Express III wasn’t done there…
👑 BIG KING SALMON — 18.37 LBS!
Another win for SALMON EXPRESS III and the $200 Big King prize!
But after THREE tournaments, it all came down to the cumulative weight…
🏆 YOUR 2026 TRIFECTA CHAMPION:
IN THE BOX — 175.930 LBS! 🏆
And look how tight it got behind them:
🥈 FUHGETABOWDIT — 152.780 lbs
🥉 CLIMAX — 152.330 lbs
4️⃣ TITAN — 150.810 lbs
5️⃣ SMOKESHOW — 150.400 lbs
Less than HALF A POUND separated 2nd and 3rd. 😳
And only 2.38 pounds separated 2nd through 5th.
THAT is a finish. 🔥
Congratulations to In The Box on taking home the 2026 Trifecta Championship, Congratulations to Salmon Express III on an incredible final-leg victory, and to every captain and crew who fished with us this season.
And we absolutely could not wrap up this year’s Trifecta without thanking the sponsors who helped make it happen:
🎣 Church Tackle
🎣 Tackle Haven
🎣 Sport Track Physical Therapy & Human Performance
🎣 Yeck Spoons
🎣 Warrior / Dreamweaver Spoons
🎣 Rapture Trolling Flies
🎣 Michigan Stinger
Your support added prizes, giveaways, captain goodies, and a whole lot more fun to this year’s tournaments. THANK YOU for supporting the anglers and this event!
A huge thank-you as well to our tournament committee, captains, crews, and everyone who came out to the weigh-ins and helped make the 18th Annual Trifecta Challenge another great season.
Three tournaments.
A whole lot of fish.
Some seriously tough competition.
And one new champion. 🏆
Congratulations, IN THE BOX!
Until next year… ✌️
