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| Charlie Evans announced on stage yesterday that all of the Tour events for FLW Outdoors Walleye will be televised.
Also, the buzz is that the Lindner Media group will be producing the TV show. Just awesome!
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| It's not just a "buzz"...that was also announced at the same time. 
From what I was told, there will be 13 shows covering all the events. Dan Sura and James Lindner were at Moline for the Championship.
Additional information will be released in two weeks and announced on the FLW Outdoors website.
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| That is truly awesome for all of the anglers who fish the RCL. This is the kind of thing Mark and Sonny have been pushing for over the years.
Juls, will you RCL anglers get your own show separate from the bass hour on OLN?
The RCL'ers need to make sure they look their best next season when the fans and sponsors get to see what you are up to, that goes especially for you Carl and Cavins.  LOL
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Location: Oshkosh, Wisconsin | Sorry for expressing my opinion on this. I should have know better than to post something like that - especially considering how personal many people take these things.
I meant no disrespect to anyone who fishes the RCL now or in the future. The anglers are simply playing by the rules layed out for them.
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| Brad,
The buzz I heard was that it was going to be open to all anglers with priority given to Ranger, Stratos and Champion owners. Don't know about Skeeter.
This is exactly how the FLW Tour has been from the get go. It is open to all anglers regardless of boat brand, just a priority to their boats. It sure has not prevented some of the biggest bass guys from fishing it, Rick Clunn, Kevin VanDam, Gary Klein and Jay Yelas. Those fellas not only don't run Genmar products, but three of them also run Mercury engines.
I hope this is how the FLW Walleye Tour or Trail will be next season and in the future. It would be beneficial to all.
As far as not allowing Keith or either of the previously mentioned Gary's the opportunity to fish that is not actually true, they just needed to purchase one of the three boat brands at the time, RC or L, to fish in them and they did not need to be new boats. I agree, who wants to do that due to cost, but some did including John Kolinski.
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Edited by Dave Landahl 10/3/2004 9:13 PM
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| Brad,
Priority entry to Genmar owners is only one week. After that, any boat brand can enter...even your three heros. I guess it didn't matter that four of the PWT's past CHAMPIONS were fishing this event, as were a few of the PWT's single tournament event winners.... and many who fish the PWT, but have never won anything! LOL
I guess they're just "glorified boat owners too"? Too funny.
Anyway....
Dave, I don't have the answer to your question, but I would hope that they would keep the walleye and bass shows seperate. We'll have to wait and see. I'm sure that information will be announced along with everything else in two weeks.
Juls
Edited by Juls_OH 10/4/2004 5:41 AM
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| The cool part about this time of the year for the tournament walleye world is waiting like a kid at Christmas for the new and innovative approaches, we hope, that will happen next season.
I think it would be absolutely incredible to see Keith K., Gary Parsons, Gary Gray, Bergsma and the rest of the PWT-only guys fish at least a few of the FLW Walleye events next season. That would be very cool to see them at these events, although they basically fish against many of the same pros throughout the year.
I also think it would be cool to see Trackers, Tritons, Princecrafts, Tuffy's and other boat brands not seen at the RCL events to this point.
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| I whole-heartedly agree.
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| And the schedule is? A little ray of sunshine told me BS, Erie, GB, and DL. Championship on Bays de Noc? Did they mention the schedule at Moline? |
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| And lets not forget yarcraft and warrioe boats! |
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| eye lunker - 10/4/2004 4:09 PM
And lets not forget yarcraft and warrior boats! ;) |
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| Guest,
I certainly did not intend to exclude those fine products or any others out there.
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| Dave, or anyone else,
Was there any mention , or is there expected to be, any changes with title sponsors as a result of these changes? What I'm wondering is this, will these tournaments still be held only in areas where there is a Walmart store to conduct a weigh in at?
If Walmart is not title sponsor, that would open up many more waters to consider for hosting events. |
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| Open up more waters? Jack, you obviously haven't seen this ... they're everywhere
http://www.gajbapivo.com/junk/mars.jpg
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| dang, they beat us again |
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| Jack,
No change in Title sponsors was announced. Wal-mart is still the big backer of FLW Outdoors.
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| Oh well, I guess we won't be seeing them around Mille Lacs any time soon! 
Edited by JLDII 10/4/2004 7:29 PM
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| Hey Dave,
Go easy on Carl and Cavins! Their my hero's! |
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| Tron,
No way, can't go easy on Pat and Carl, they're friends. Somebody has to keep 'em on their toes.
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