Final weigh-in from Knoxville to air Sunday on FSN

Second Wal-Mart FLW Tour qualifier to award up to $125,000 to winning pro
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FLW Tour anglers prepare for the day-two takeoff. Photo by Brett Carlson.
April 30, 2007 • MLF • Archives

MINNEAPOLIS – Tune in Sunday, May 6, to “FLW Outdoors” on FSN for the conclusion of the $1 million Wal-Mart FLW Tour event presented by BP on Fort Loudoun-Tellico lakes in Knoxville, Tenn. Watch as co-hosts Charlie Evans and Keith Lebowitz take viewers through the final weigh-in and award the winning pro angler up to $125,000. The one-hour show is the second of a two-part series covering the second event of the $9.5 million FLW Tour season.

Third-place pro Harmon Davis holds up his two biggest bass from day one.The May 6 show features an all-access segment with pro angler Harmon Davis. Davis grabbed the seventh qualifying spot with a two-day weight of 26 pounds, 10 ounces. He caught 10 bass during the opening round, but none were more important than his twin 6-pounders, caught sight-fishing off beds. Those two fish anchored his five-bass limit on day one that weighed 18 pounds, 5 ounces. On day three, Davis caught another five-bass limit, but it weighed only 10 pounds, 3 ounces. Watch as the Marlow, Okla., native takes viewers along for a ride as he prepares for the final day of competition.

Another pro with the surname Davis is absolutely tearing up the field. Mark Davis, from Mount Ida, Ark., took a huge day-three lead by catching five bass that weighed 19 pound, 13 ounces. Not only does Mark Davis showing off the two smallmouths that brought him victory.Davis have a 7-14 lead, but it seems as though his other nine competitors fell into a trap that Davis himself has set. While other anglers bathed in the bed-fishing limelight of the first two days, Davis has worked hard to develop something other than a strict sight-fishing regimen. The veteran in him knew that sight-fishing could only last so long. Eventually the wells would run dry or the weather would prohibit sight-fishing.

The bulk of his fish are coming on two topwater wakebaits: a Long A and a King Shad by Strike King. On day three, he caught three on the wakebaits, one off bed and one on a wacky worm. Tune in as the Shinichi Fukae rallied for sixth place via an 18-pound day-two catch.five-time BASS champion goes for win No. 1 on the FLW Tour.

FSN also flashes back to Shinichi Fukae’s extraordinary 2006 FLW Tour season, a season which included two wins and three top-10 finishes. Fukae is back at it again in 2007, as the BP pro sits ninth with one day left on the Fort Loudoun-Tellico lakes.

In addition, Fujifilm pro Wesley Strader of Spring City, Tenn., participates in this edition of Fishing 101. Strader, who is considered an East Tennessee local, explains how to customize and improve the action on your topwater baits with a special loop knot.

Team Fujifilm pro Wesley StraderFSN is the industry leader in providing the most up-to-date technology in TV production. FSN puts viewers in the boats with the pros, shadowing them from sunrise until the final weigh-in using innovative camera work that gives fishing fans the most intimate viewing experience available.

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 guide listing upcoming episodes 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 website at www.FoxSports.com.

“FLW Outdoors” is also broadcast internationally to more than 429 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, Ranger Owners Tournament Championship Series, 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 of nearly $43 million through 241 events in 2007.

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 Walmart.com.

For more information about FLW Outdoors and its tournament programs, browse FLWOutdoors.com or call (270) 252-1000.