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 Walmart Bass
Fishing League
Ozark
Division
TRUMAN LAKE TO HOST WAL-MART
BASS FISHING LEAGUE OZARK DIVISION TOURNAMENT
CLINTON, Mo. (June 15, 2005) The Ozark
Division of the $8.4 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League will
visit Truman Lake near Clinton June 25 for the fourth 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 $39,000 in cash, including as much as $5,500 to the Boater
Division winner.
Bucksaw Marina in Clinton will host the takeoff
and weigh-in at 5:45 a.m. and 2 p.m., respectively. Anglers will
compete for prize money as well as points that count toward postseason
competition. Every angler who receives weight credit in a tournament
earns points, with 200 points going to the winner, 199 for second,
198 for third, and so on except for the season-ending Super Tournaments,
which award 300 points to the winner, 299 points for second,
298 for third, and so on.
If the winner is a participant in the Ranger Cup
incentive program, he will receive a $1,000 bonus from Ranger
Boats and $500 from Yamaha if his boat is powered by Yamaha.
(Ranger will award $500 to the highest-finishing Ranger Cup participant
if not the winner, and Yamaha will kick in $250 if the boat is
powered by Yamaha.) If the winning boater uses only Garmin electronics
during the event and at least one product is a qualifying unit,
Garmin will also award a $1,000 bonus. Bombardier will award
$1,000 to the winning boater if the winner,s boat is equipped
with a qualifying Evinrude Direct Injection outboard. That,s
a potential top award of $8,500 for anglers who meet contingency
guidelines.
The winning co-angler will earn as much as $2,750
cash. The angler who catches the biggest bass of the day in the
Boater Division will earn as much as $1,000, and the co-angler
big-bass winner will earn as much as $500.
The top 40 boaters and co-anglers in each of the
BFL,s 28 divisions at the end of the season are eligible to advance
to regional competition. Seven $110,000 regional championships
will each send six boaters and six co-anglers to the 2006 All-American
championship, which will feature a $1 million purse and a top
award as high as $140,000. Anglers who compete in all five regular-season
events within a division but do not advance to regional competition
are eligible to compete in the Wild Card, which will also send
six boaters and six co-anglers to the All-American for a championship
field of 48 boaters and 48 co-anglers.
The top 40 Ozark Division boaters and co-anglers
will advance to the Lake Ouachita Regional near Hot Springs,
Ark., Oct. 18-22 and will compete against anglers from the Cowboy,
Louisiana and Okie divisions for an All-American slot. The top
40 anglers from each division may also advance to the EverStart
Series in 2006.
A two-day Super Tournament, the Ozark Division,s
fifth and final event, will be held on Table Rock Lake in Branson
Sept. 10-11. For more information or to enter a tournament, call
(270) 252-1000 or visit FLWOutdoors.com.
If the June 25 tournament is not yet full, entries
will be accepted at tournament registration, which will be held
June 24 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Wal-Mart located at 1712 East
Ohio St. in Clinton. Entry fees are $200 for boaters and $100
for co-anglers.
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 EverStart Series and ultimately the Wal-Mart FLW Tour "
bass fishing,s most lucrative tournament series. Former BFL anglers
who have become fishing superstars on the Wal-Mart FLW Tour include
Kellogg,s pro Clark Wendlandt, Ranger pro Tommy Biffle and four-time
FLW Tour champion David Fritts.
Named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats,
Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing
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.
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.
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