Team Black Gold wins Walmart FLW Kingfish Tour event in Wrightsville Beach

Kingfish team walks away with $44,000 in winnings

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N.C. – Team Black Gold, captained by Don Williamson of Lumberton, N.C., caught a kingfish weighing 14 pounds, 1 ounce Sunday to win $44,000 in the Walmart FLW Kingfish Tour event in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., with a two-day total of two king mackerel weighing 44-14.

Williamson said he caught his day-three fish on a double-pogie rig on the outrigger line. Williamson said the fish was caught just beneath the surface as the boat sat in 50 feet of water. Team Black Gold caught a 30-pound, 13-ounce kingfish on day one to qualify for the final round of five teams in fifth place.

Rounding out the top five teams were Team Barbara Ann, captained by John Adcox of Jacksonville, Fla. (one kingfish, 34-13, $17,600); Team OBX Girl/Team Calcutta, captained by Jim Dupree Jr. of Tarboro, N.C. (one kingfish, 31-4, $8,800); Team Logan’s Run, captained by D. Logan of Belville, N.C. (one kingfish, 31-2, $6,160); and Team Cat Daddy, captained by Danny Mathis of Gonzales, La. (one kingfish, 31-1, $6,380).

FLW Kingfish Tour qualifying tournaments are three-day events. The entire field competed Friday and Saturday, and the top five teams based on the heaviest kingfish from either day competed Sunday.

Coverage of the Wrightsville Beach tournament hosted by the Seapath Yacht Clubwill be broadcast to 81 million FSN (Fox Sports Net) subscribers in the United States Dec. 21 as part of the “FLW Outdoors” television program. “FLW Outdoors” airs Sunday mornings at 11 Eastern time. “FLW Outdoors” is also broadcast in Canada on WFN (World Fishing Network) and to more than 429 million households in the United Kingdom, Europe, Russia, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East through a distribution agreement with Matchroom Sport, making it the most widely distributed fishing program in the world. The program airs Sunday mornings at 11 Eastern time in most markets. Check local listings for times in your area.

The $1.7 million Walmart FLW Kingfish Tour consists of four regular-season events. After four events are complete, the top 50 teams will compete in the three-day, no-entry-fee $500,000 Walmart FLW Kingfish Tour Championship presented by BP in Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 14-16. The winning team at the championship will take home as much as $150,000.

Tournament anglers aren’t the only ones winning big this season. With the introduction of FLW Fantasy Fishing™, FLW Outdoors® offered anyone the opportunity to enter for their chance to land the catch of a lifetime with the opportunity to win $7.3 million in cash and prizes. Players could become a virtual pro angler by signing up for Player’s Advantage, which provided them with exclusive insider information that could have guided them to a $100,000 victory at every Walmart FLW Tour® stop and the Forrest Wood Cup. Player’s Advantage gave them an edge over the competition and increased their shot for the $1 million cash grand prize awarded to the FLW Fantasy Fishing cumulative points winner. Visit FantasyFishing.com today to find out more information and to register for next season.

FLW Outdoors, named after Forrest L. Wood, the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, is the largest fishing tournament organization in the world. In 2008 alone the organization is offering more than 90,000 anglers the chance to win over $40 million through 230 tournaments in 10 circuits. FLW Outdoors is also taking fishing mainstream with the largest cash awards in the history of fantasy sports, $7.3 million.

For more information about FLW Outdoors and its tournaments, call (270) 252-1000. For more information about FLW Fantasy Fishing and Player’s Advantage, visit FantasyFishing.com.