WAL-MART FLW WALLEYE LEAGUE TO VISIT TRENTON TRENTON, Mich.
(April 5, 2005) – The Wal-Mart FLW Walleye League Michigan Division
will kick off the year with its first tournament of 2005 on the Detroit
River in Trenton April 16. The tournament is expected to draw as many
as 200 weekend walleye anglers to the area, with Boater Division competitors
casting for a top award of as much as $4,000 and co-anglers in the
hunt for a top award of as much as $2,000. Anglers will take off from
Elizabeth Part at 7 a.m., and the weigh-in will be held there beginning
at 3 p.m. The community is invited to attend both the takeoff and
weigh-in, which are free and open to the public. Boaters and co-anglers
are randomly paired for the event and fish for a combined boat weight.
Cash payouts are based on a full field of 100 boaters and 100 co-anglers.
Boaters compete against other boaters, and co-anglers compete against
other co-anglers. The winning boater will earn as much as $3,500 cash
for the win, and if the winner is a registered owner of a Ranger boat
used during the event, the winner receives a $500 Ranger bonus for
a top award of $4,000 cash. If the winning boater uses only Garmin
electronics with at least one unit being a qualifying unit, the winner
will also receive a $1,000 bonus from Garmin for a total award of
$5,000. The winning co-angler will earn as much as $1,750 and if the
winner is a registered Ranger owner, the winner will receive a $250
bonus for a top award of $2,000. Three FLW Walleye League divisions
– Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin – each feature three one-day events
and one two-day Super Tournament during the regular season. Every
angler who receives weight credit earns points, with 200 points awarded
to the winner, 199 for second, 198 for third, and so on, except for
Super Tournaments, which award 300 points to the winner, 299 for second,
298 for third, and so on. These points determine angler standings.
The top 35 boaters and 35 co-anglers from each FLW Walleye League
division advance to the $115,000 Wal-Mart FLW Walleye League Finals,
set for Sept. 8-10 on the Mississippi River in Winona, Minn. Anglers
finishing in the top 10 in each division also receive priority entry
into the Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour for 2006. The Michigan Division’s
second stop will be held on Houghton Lake June 11, followed by the
Saginaw Bay event July 23 and the Super Tournament presented by Evinrude
Aug. 6-7 also on Saginaw Bay. If the April 16 tournament on the Detroit
River is not yet full, entries will be accepted at tournament registration,
which will be held April 15 from 4 to 6 p.m. at Oscar A. Carlson High
School located at 30550 W. Jefferson in Gilbraltar. Entry fees are
$150 for boaters and $75 for co-anglers. The Wal-Mart FLW Walleye
League was created to provide the grassroots walleye angler a chance
to compete in professionally administered, close-to-home tournaments
with lucrative cash awards. Named after the legendary founder of Ranger
Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart FLW
Walleye League and seven other national tournament circuits offering
a combined $30 million in awards through 214 events in 2005. The 27-year-old
organization is the purveyor of America’s largest and most prestigious
fishing tournaments, including the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, EverStart Series,
Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League, Wal-Mart Texas Tournament Trail, Wal-Mart
FLW Walleye Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye League Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish
Tour and Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series. For more information on FLW
Outdoors and its tournament programs, visit FLWOutdoors.com or call
(270) 252-1000. Wal-Mart and many of America’s largest and most respected
companies support FLW Outdoors and its tournament trails. Wal-Mart
signed on as title sponsor of the FLW Tour in 1997 and today is the
title sponsor of all FLW Outdoors events. For more information on
Wal-Mart, visit Wal-Mart.com