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GRAND LAKE TO HOST WALMART BASS
FISHING LEAGUE OKIE DIVISION TOURNAMENT
GROVE, Okla. (Feb. 25, 2009) The Okie
Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will
visit Grand Lake in Grove, Okla., March 7 for the first of five
regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers
are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as
much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the
Boater Division.
If the winner is a participant in the Ranger Cup
incentive program, he or she will receive a $2,000 bonus from
Ranger Boats. If the winner is not a Ranger Cup participant,
Ranger will award $1,000 to the highest-finishing Ranger Cup
participant. That's a potential top award of $8,000 for anglers
who meet contingency guidelines.
Bombardier will award $1,000 to the winning boater
if the winner's boat is equipped with a qualifying Evinrude E-TEC
or Direct Injection outboard.
The winning co-angler will earn as much as $3,000
cash.
Big Bass awards of up to $1,000 and $500, respectively,
will also be awarded in the Boater and Co-angler Divisions.
Anglers may register for the tournament online
at FLWOutdoors.com or by calling (270) 252-1000. Onsite registration
will be held March 6 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Walmart store located
at 2115 S. Main in Grove. Entry fees are $200 for boaters and
$100 for co-anglers.
The Grove City Ramp in Grove will host the takeoff
and weigh-in at 7:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., respectively.
The top 40 boaters and 40 co-anglers in each of
the BFL's 28 divisions at the end of the season advance to a
no-entry-fee Regional Championship where boaters fish for a new
Ranger boat and a Chevy truck and co-anglers fish for a new Ranger
boat. Seven regional championships will each send six boaters
and six co-anglers to the no-entry-fee Walmart BFL All-American
presented by Chevy, which features a $1 million purse and a top
award of $140,000 in the Boater Division and $70,000 in the Co-angler
Division. Anglers who compete in all five regular-season events
within a division but do not advance to a Regional Championship
are eligible to compete in the Chevy Wild Card, which will also
send six boaters and six co-anglers to the All-American for a
total of 48 boaters and 48 co-anglers advancing through BFL competition.
The winning boater and winning co-angler at the
All-American will advance to the no-entry-fee $2.5 million Forrest
Wood Cup in Atlanta in 2010. This event, featuring a top award
of $1 million, is the most lucrative tournament in all of competitive
bass fishing. In all, the BFL offers weekend anglers the opportunity
to qualify for three no-entry-fee championships with total cash
awards exceeding $3.5 million. Plus, the top 40 boaters and 40
co-anglers from each BFL division may move up to the Stren Series™
for 2010 while All-American champions have the option to advance
directly to the Walmart FLW Tour®.
A two-day Super Tournament, the division's fifth
and final event, will be held on the Grand Lake in Grove Oct.
3-4.
Following the end of regular-season competition,
the top 40 boaters and 40 co-anglers in the Okie Division will
advance to the DeGray Lake Regional Championship in Arkadelphia,
Ark., Oct. 22-24 and will compete against anglers from the Cowboy,
Louisiana/Texas and Ozark divisions for an All-American berth.
In BFL competition, boaters supply the boat and
compete from the front deck against other boaters. Co-anglers
compete from the back deck against other co-anglers.
As the nation's leading provider of affordable,
close-to-home weekend tournaments, the BFL is widely credited
with opening competitive bass fishing to the masses. It also
serves as a steppingstone for anglers who wish to advance to
the Stren Series and ultimately the FLW Tour bass fishing's
most lucrative tournament circuit.
Total awards are based on a full field of 200 boats
in every tournament.
FLW Outdoors, named after Forrest L. Wood, the
legendary founder of Ranger Boats, is the largest fishing tournament
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