MINNEAPOLIS – Tune in to “FLW Outdoors” Sunday, Nov. 19, beginning at 11 a.m. EST on FSN (Fox Sports Net) and watch the world’s best king mackerel teams compete in Southport, N.C., in the final regular-season event of the 2006 $1.82 million Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour. The stakes are higher than ever as offshore anglers compete for a first-place prize of as much as $100,000 and berths into the season-ending $500,000 championship and Team of the Year honors.
“FLW Outdoors” is a reality-format show told from the anglers’ perspective. The top five teams surviving the opening-round cut are followed from takeoff to weigh-in, allowing the audience to feel the anglers’ nerves, listen to their strategies 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.
FSN follows Team Nailhead – captained by Johnny Walker of Gainesville, Ga., and fresh off an impressive sixth-place finish at Beaufort, S.C., the previous month – as they overcome engine problems to land a kingfish weighing 42 pounds, 9 ounces. But hard-charging Team Fish Meister, led by Dean Spatholt of Calabash, N.C., falls just more than a pound short of the top spot on day two with a kingfish weighing 41 pounds, 5 ounces.
Advancing neck and neck from the two-day opening round less than 7 pounds behind the leaders are Team Hooligan, captained by Joe Winslow of Sunset Beach, N.C., and Team Kellogg’s, led by Capt. Bryan Edwards of Little River, S.C., with kings weighing 35 pounds, 14 ounces and 35-10, respectively. Rounding out the top five is Team Lured Away, captained by Robert Schoenfeld of Conroe, Texas, that brought in a sizeable 28-14 mackerel to qualify for a final day of fishing.
These teams are no strangers to the finals, setting the stage for one of the most competitive final-round showdowns in the tour’s history. Team Hooligan earned a runner-up finish and $26,000 in the season 
opener at Sarasota, Fla., the Kellogg’s crew logged a noteworthy seventh-place finish in the prior tour event and Lured Away were the runners-up at the circuit’s second stop in Fort Pierce, Fla.
If everything hanging in the balance weren’t enough to weigh heavily upon the teams competing off North Carolina’s coast, the wind-whipped seas facing anglers throughout much of the Sept. 21-23 tournament certainly add pressure. In the world of competitive kingfishing, a single catch can easily shuffle a leaderboard, so it’s anybody’s tournament to win as “FLW Outdoors” showcases the final round of seafaring action, and viewers find out which teams earn enough points to advance to the 
season-ending Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour Championship in Mount Pleasant, S.C., Nov. 9-11.
FSN broadcasts “FLW Outdoors” Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon Eastern time. Check local listings for show times and channels in your area. FLWOutdoors.com also provides an online show guide listing what events are coming up on “FLW Outdoors.”
FSN is broadcast to more than 81 million homes through its network of 20 regional sports channels. Established in 1996, FSN is the only cable network that supplies national, regional and local sports programming. FSN serves as the cable TV home to 62 of the 82 MLB, NHL and NBA teams based in the United States, and produces more than 4,500 live events each year. FSN has an extensive catalog of original national programs, including “Best Damn Sports Show Period” and “Beyond the Glory” documentary series, along with national packages of collegiate sports. Based in Los Angeles, FSN is part of the vast FOX Sports television family. For the latest up-to-the-minute sports news and opinions, visit the FOX Sports/FSN Web site at www.FoxSports.com.
“FLW Outdoors” is also broadcast internationally to more than 350 million households in such countries as Germany, China, South Africa, Australia, Malaysia, Russia, Hungary and the United Kingdom, making it the most widely distributed weekly outdoor-sports television show in the world. Additionally, FLW Outdoors is proud to provide tournament coverage to more than 800,000 service men and women stationed around the world in 177 countries and aboard Navy ships through broadcasts on the American Forces Network.
Named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Series, Stren Series, Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League, Wal-Mart Texas Tournament Trail presented by Abu Garcia, Stratos Owners’ Tournament Trail, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye League, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Series, Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series and Wal-Mart FLW Striper Series. These circuits offer combined purses exceeding $37.9 million through 249 events in 2006.
Wal-Mart and many of America’s largest and most respected companies support FLW Outdoors and its tournament trails. Wal-Mart signed on as an FLW Outdoors sponsor in 1997 and today is the world’s leading supporter of tournament fishing. For more information about Wal-Mart, visit Wal-Mart.com.
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