‘FLW Outdoors’ TV to air Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour event from Morehead City
Final regular-season event to determine championship field
MINNEAPOLIS – Tune in Sunday to “FLW Outdoors” on FSN for the $300,000 Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour event held in Morehead City, N.C., Oct. 10-11. The final regular-season event of the most lucrative kingfish tournament trail in the country concludes with the winning team claiming a cash prize of $70,000.
The “FLW Outdoors” saltwater series is a reality-format show told from the anglers’ perspective. Each week the top four teams are followed from takeoff to weigh-in, allowing the audience to feel the anglers’ nerves, listen to their strategy and learn from their mistakes. The stories evolve and the suspense grows throughout the one-hour show until the final weigh-in results are announced.
FLW Kingfish Tour events are two-day tournaments with the heaviest kingfish determining the winner. The final regular-season event of the season will determine which teams will go on to fish the no-entry-fee $500,000 Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour Championship. The top 50 teams of the 2005 season will go on to fish the championship, where the winner will take home as much as $150,000.
Leading after a wet, blustery day one was Team Marcia-D with a 35-pound, 3-ounce kingfish caught using pogies near the surface. The team, captained by Perry Johnston of Oak Island, N.C., capitalized on an early bite when the weather was relatively calm.
Team No Doubt, captained by Trae Ross of Oxford, Ga., finished the day in second place. His team boated their 27-pound, 7-ounce king mackerel near the end of the day by fishing a single pogy at mid-depth.
Watch as the field of 89 boats attempts to top the 35-pound, 3-ounce kingfish caught on day one.
FSN broadcasts “FLW Outdoors” Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon ET. Check local listings for show times and channels in your area. FLWOutdoors.com also provides an online show guide so you can keep track of what events are coming up on “FLW Outdoors.”
FSN reaches more than 78 million homes through its network of 20 regional sports channels. FSN, based in Los Angeles, serves as the cable-TV home to 60 of the 81 MLB, NHL and NBA teams based in the United States and produces over 4,500 live events each year. In addition to home-team games, FSN telecasts a wide variety of national sports events and programming, including the “Best Damn Sports Show Period” and “Beyond the Glory.” For the latest up-to-the-minute sports news and opinions, visit the FOX Sports/FSN Web site at FoxSports.com.
“FLW Outdoors” is also televised on the American Forces Network, which reaches over 800,000 service men and women stationed around the world in 177 countries and aboard naval ships.
Named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers 10 national tournament circuits offering more than $35 million in awards through 235 events in 2006. The 27-year-old organization is the purveyor of America’s largest and most prestigious fishing tournaments, including the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Series, Stren 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, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Series and Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series.
Wal-Mart and more than 40 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 about FLW Outdoors and its bass, walleye, redfish and kingfish tournament programs, browse FLWOutdoors.com.