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 Wal-Mart Bass
Fishing League
Okie
Division
April 2005 - Lake Eufaula
Christie wins Wal-Mart Bass
Fishing League event on Lake Eufaula
EUFAULA, Okla. (April 11, 2005) Boater
Jason Christie of Park Hill
earned $3,880 Saturday as winner of the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing
League Okie
Division event on Lake Eufaula. The tournament was the second
of five
regular-season Okie Division events and featured 122 boaters
vying for
the win, which earned Christie 200 points in the Boater Division.
Christie's winning catch of five bass weighed 21
pounds, 3 ounces.
Christie was slow-rolling a spinnerbait along rocky points to
catch his
bass. Christie earned an additional $1,000 for the Garmin contingency
award and another $1,000 for the Ranger Cup award.
Finishing second was Wade Ramsey of Midwest City
with five bass
weighing 13 pounds, 11 ounces that earned him $1,940. Seth Valentine
of
Edmond claimed $1,268 as the third-place finisher thanks to five
bass
weighing 13 pounds, 3 ounces. In fourth was Andy Carroll of Ft.
Smith, Ark.,
with four bass weighing 12 pounds, 11 ounces worth $988, and
finishing
fifth and earning $811 was Nick Frakes of Gravette, Ark., with
four
bass weighing 12 pounds, 10 ounces.
Steve Dowty of Claremore took Boater Division big-bass
award honors,
earning $610 for a 7-pound, 2-ounce bass. He caught his big bass
on a
Carolina-rig.
Mike Leland of Collinsville earned $1,855 as the
co-angler winner,
thanks to three bass weighing 13 pounds, 13 ounces that he caught
on a
Wiggle Wart crawdad. Leland won an additional $285 as the co-angler
big-bass award winner with 5-pound, 15-ounce bass.
Rounding out the top five co-anglers are Ron Cheshier
of Owasso (three
bass, 8 pounds, 8 ounces, $928); Chris Wall of Bentonville, Ark.,
(three bass, 8 pounds, 6 ounces, $608); Jerry Corbett of Chouteau
(three
bass, 6 pounds, 11 ounces, $472); and Thomas C. Hill of Dallas,
Texas (one
bass, 5 pounds, 6 ounces, $388).
The Okie Division's next event will be held May
7 on Ft. Gibson Lake
near Sequoyah, followed by an event on Grand Lake near Monkey
Island
June 4. The Okie Division will wrap up its regular season Sept.
17-18 with
a two-day Super Tournament on Grand Lake near Grove.
Following the regular season, the Okie Division
boater with the most
points will earn $1,000 as the Yamaha "Be the Best"
points champion. The
co-angler amassing the most points will earn $500 as the Yamaha
"Be the
Best" points champion in the Co-angler Division.
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 Super Tournaments, which award 300 points to
the
winner, 299 for second, 298 for third, and so on. The top 40
Okie Division
boaters and co-anglers based on year-end points standings will
advance
to the Lake Ouachita Regional near Hot Springs, Ark., Oct. 18-22
where
they will compete against Cowboy, Louisiana and Ozark division
anglers
for one of six slots in the 2006 All-American. With a total purse
of $1
million and a potential $140,000 cash prize going to the winning
boater
and $70,000 going to the winning co-angler, the All-American
is one of
the most prestigious and lucrative events in bass fishing.
LAKE EUFAULA TO HOST WAL-MART
BASS FISHING LEAGUE OKIE DIVISION TOURNAMENT
EUFAULA, Okla. (March 29, 2005) The Okie
Division of the $8.4 million
Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League will visit Lake Eufaula near Eufaula
April 9
for the second 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.
Eufaula Cove in Eufaula will host the takeoff and
weigh-in at 7 a.m. and
3 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 Okie 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 Ozark, Louisiana and Cowboy divisions
for an
All-American slot. The top 40 anglers from each division may
also advance to
the EverStart Series in 2006.
Okie Division anglers will next visit Ft. Gibson
Lake in Sequoyah May 7
for their third regular-season event, followed by an event on
Grand Lake in
Monkey Island June 4. A two-day Super Tournament, the division,s
fifth and
final event, will be held on Grand Lake in Grove Sept. 17-18.
For more
information or to enter a tournament, call (270) 252-1000 or
visit
FLWOutdoors.com.
If the April 9 tournament is not yet full, entries
will be accepted at
tournament registration, which will be held April 8 from 4 to
7 p.m. at the
Wal-Mart located at 1110 West Gentry in Checotah. 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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