OSHKOSH, Wis. – The Wal-Mart RCL Walleye League Wisconsin Division will wrap up its regular season July 10-11 with a Super Tournament presented by Evinrude on Lake Winnebago. The tournament is the third and final regular-season event en route to the $100,000 Wal-Mart RCL Walleye League Finals, set for Sept. 2-4 on Bays de Noc in Escanaba, Mich.
The Lake Winnebago event marks the season’s only two-day event and also features a larger purse. The tournament will award as much as $34,945 to as many as 200 boaters and co-anglers, up from the $25,955 payout at one-day RCL League events. The winning boater can earn as much as $5,250, including $4,500 for the win plus a $750 bonus if he is a registered owner of a Ranger, Crestliner or Lund boat. The winning co-angler can earn as much as $2,625, including a winning prize of $2,250 plus a Ranger, Crestliner or Lund bonus worth $375 if contingency guidelines are met. Payouts are based on a full field of 100 boaters and 100 co-anglers.
Anglers will take off from Menominee Park/Miller’s Bay at 7 a.m. both days. Saturday’s weigh-in will also be held there at 3 p.m., and Sunday’s weigh-in will be held at the Wal-Mart store located at 351 S. Washburn St. in Oshkosh beginning at 3 p.m. The community is encouraged to attend daily takeoffs and weigh-ins.
In RCL League competition, boaters and co-anglers are randomly paired for the event and fish for a combined boat weight. Boaters compete against other boaters, and co-anglers compete against other co-anglers.
Four RCL Walleye League divisions – Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin -each feature two one-day events and one two-day Super Tournament during the regular season. Every angler who receives weight credit earns points, with 200 points awarded 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. These points determine angler standings.
The top 25 boaters and 25 co-anglers from each RCL League division advance to the RCL Walleye League Finals, and the top five boaters and five co-anglers from each division qualify for the $1.4 million Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Championship if they are a Ranger, Crestliner or Lund owner.
The Wal-Mart RCL Walleye League was created to provide the grassroots walleye angler a chance to compete in professionally administered, close-to-home tournaments with lucrative cash awards. FLW Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart RCL Walleye League as well as the Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Tour, the world’s most lucrative walleye-fishing circuit. FLW Outdoors also administers the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, the EverStart Series, the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League and the Wal-Mart Texas Tournament Trail. To enter a tournament, browse this Web site for online registration or call (270) 252-1000.
Wal-Mart and many of America’s most respected companies support FLW Outdoors and its six tournament trails. Wal-Mart has been the title sponsor of FLW Outdoors since 1997. For a complete list of FLW Outdoors sponsors and for more information about the premier products and services they offer, please visit FLWOutdoors.com’s sponsor page.
FLW Outdoors is named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, Forrest L. Wood.