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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 

$2.9 million 2002 Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Circuit to visit Michigan

Tournament features $100,000 in first-place prizes

Bay City, Mich. (June 17, 2002) — The $2.9 million Wal-Mart RCL Walleye
Circuit will visit Saginaw Bay June 26-29 with 300 top pros and co-anglers
competing for a share of $346,000 cash in the season’s fourth tournament.

Directed by FLW Outdoors and named after Wal-Mart and boat manufacturers
Ranger, Crestliner and Lund, the Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Circuit is the world’s
most lucrative walleye fishing series. Each of the circuit’s four
regular-season tournaments features a cash purse of $346,000 with $90,000 in
cash and prizes, including a fully-rigged Ranger, Crestliner or Lund boat
powered by Evinrude or Yamaha going to the winning pro. The top co-angler
earns $15,000 cash. Pros and co-anglers fish for a combined five-walleye
limit and receive cash payments to 50th place.

One hundred and fifty Ranger, Crestliner and Lund boat owners comprise the
Pro Division while 150 co-angler berths are open to the public. Anglers in
both divisions fish in three elimination rounds. After the two-day opening
round, the field is cut to the top 20 pros and top 20 co-anglers who advance
to the one-day semifinal round. The top 10 pros and top 10 co-anglers after
the semifinal round advance to the finals. Catch weights carry over for the
first two days, but anglers start the semifinal and final rounds from zero.

Weigh-ins during the first two days of the four-day tournament will be held
at Hoyles Marina in Linwood, Mich., starting at 3 p.m. The semifinal and
final round weigh-ins June 28-29 will be held at the Bay City Wal-Mart
located at 3921 Wilder Road at 3:30 p.m. Takeoff will be at 7 o’clock each
morning at Hoyles Marina.

Ranger pro Mark Brumbaugh, Crestliner pro Rick Olson and Lund pro Scott
Glorvigen are a few of the walleye fishing superstars who will be competing
in the Saginaw Bay tournament.  This is the fourth and final regular-season
Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Circuit tournament.

Following the tournament, 200 pros and 200 co-anglers from the Wal-Mart RCL
Walleye Circuit and other sanctioned tournament organizations and events
will compete in the $1.4 million Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Championship for a top
pro award of up to $400,000 cash and a top co-angler award of up to $150,000
cash. The championship will be held on the Mississippi River near Red Wing,
Minn., Oct. 2-5. Green Bay, Wis., hosted the Wal-Mart RCL Championship last
season when Dean Arnoldussen of Kaukauna, Wis., won $400,000 and instantly
joined the sport’s top all-time money winners.

Entry fees for regular-season tournaments are $1,250 for pros and $500 for
co-anglers. A limited number of co-angler spots are still available.

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