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DEL.ICIO.USBig payoff not just a fantasy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The FLW Outdoors folks announced Wednesday that the $1 million winner of its online fantasy bass fishing game will be released during an Atlanta press conference on Aug. 21.
In case you didn’t know, in FLW fantasy fishing, players pick a team of pros on the FLW Tour. Based on the anglers’ successes in tournaments, a fantasy “owner” can win prizes and money. The contest awards $100,000 to the winning team after each of seven FLW Your events. The fantasy player with the most points after the season wins $1 million.
With live music, free giveaways and a fleet of bass-fishing rigs as a backdrop, the organization will make the announcement at an 11:30 a.m. presser at Centennial Olympic Park.
The announcement will come days after the Wal-Mart FLW Tour concludes its 2008 season on Lake Murray near Columbia, S.C., with the Forrest Wood Cup, which also awards $1 million to its winner.
“Atlanta is the perfect place to crown our first FLW Fantasy Fishing champion,” FLW head Irwin Jacobs said in a press release. “It’s a world city located in the heart of bass country.”
That makes sense. After all, the world-record largemouth bass was caught in Georgia. Most of the nearly 1 million anglers in Georgia fish for bass. Lakes Allatoona and Lanier, despite the growth striper fishing in both places, are each considered quality spotted bass lakes and both are among the most-visited U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs in the country.
And, of course, Gov. Sonny Perdue’s Go Fish Georgia initiative, designed to bring more attention to fishing in the state, wants to attract more pro fishing.
Which gets me to wonder something. The 2009 Forrest Wood Cup hasn’t been announced yet and the whole FLW crew, including Jacobs, will be in Atlanta on Aug. 21. Will this be more than fantasy fishing?
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By Jim W Harrison
August 7, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
In a conversation with Forrest Wood at the 2008 Bass Masters Classic, he is a promoter of a wide range of bass fishing, not only the Forrest Wood Cup.