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September 2, 2005 • MLF • Archives

MINNEAPOLIS – During the upcoming Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour Championship held Sept. 28-Oct. 1 on the Mississippi River in Moline, Ill., walleye fans throughout the world will have the unique opportunity to watch the live weigh-in at FLWOutdoors.com. The tournament, which is hosted by the Quad Cities, will award as much as $125,000 to the winning pro angler.

FLW Live is a streaming video and real-time audio play-by-play that brings the live weigh-in experience to the computer screens of fans who can not attend the tournament. At any moment during weigh-in, fans can search for their favorite anglers and get their specific day’s weigh-in results. Throughout each day’s weigh-in, FLWOutdoors.com visitors will receive detailed information, including up-to-the-second results, current and previous days’ standings and links to angler bios. The top-10 pro and co-angler leaderboards will be constantly updated on FLW Live to bring fans all the latest action.

FLW Live is located on the left-hand navigation bar of the FLWOutdoors.com home page. Once the link is clicked, the start page will appear, proceeding to activation of FLW Live.

Weigh-ins at the FLW Walleye Tour Championship will be held at the Wal-Mart store located at 3930 44th Ave. in Moline beginning at 5 p.m. each day.

Named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour and eight other national tournament circuits offering more than $30 million in purses 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, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Series and Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series.

For more information on Wal-Mart FLW Outdoors and its tournament programs, visit FLWOutdoors.com or call (270) 252-1000.

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.

For more information about the Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour Championship hosted by the Quad Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau, visit FLWOutdoors.com or call (270) 252-1000. For more information about the Quad Cities, go to Visitquadcities.com.