AIM™ Announces 2010 Bay Mills Invitational Tournament
Artificial Lures Only and High Payback Part of this Historic
Event
Plymouth, WI – June 12, 2009- Anglers Insight Marketing
LLC™ (AIM™) and Bay Mills Resort & Casino
announced today the dates for the 2010 Bay Mills Invitational
Walleye Tournament - a special event in addition to the
2010 AIM Pro Walleye Series™ schedule.
AIM™ has teamed up with Bay Mills Resort & Casino,
who has pledged an incremental $50,000 to the event purse.
This special invitational event will be held in early June
of 2010 at the Resort, located on the prime fishery near
Brimley, Michigan.
Bay Mills Resort & Casino has chosen to partner with
AIM to showcase the entire Brimley area, and their outstanding
walleye fishery in particular. The 2010 Bay Mills Invitational
Walleye Tournament will feature the fishing industry’s
newest products by virtue of the “artificial only”
designation and the exclusive AIM Catch-Record-Release™
format – with every large walleye being digitally
recorded – and then immediately released to fight
again!
Rod Jones, General Manager of Bay Mills Resort & Casinos
said, “Since we are located right on the shores of
Lake Superior here in Brimley, Michigan, where anglers from
all over the US and Canada fish, hosting the Bay Mills Invitational
Walleye Tournament is a natural fit for our resort. It will
showcase the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan as a premier
walleye fishing destination. I especially like AIM’s
Catch-Record-Release? format, therefore, Bay Mills Resort
& Casinos has committed $50,000 to the tournament purse
to make this a premier event in the walleye fishing industry.”
Scott Matheson, President and CEO of AIM stated, “We
are pleased to bring the AIM tournament format to the Brimley
area. This added event to the 2010 schedule will be another
example of AIM fishing the best areas at the peak of the
bite. This special event will showcase the newest products
of AIM’s fishing and marine Marketing Partners. The
normal 100% Pro Angler payback in the AIM Pro Walleye Series™
events will be increased by $50,000. Thanks to Rod Jones
and Bay Mills Resort & Casino, we are proud to offer
this high-payback invitational as a reward for participation
in the inaugural year of the AIM Pro Walleye Series™.
We invite competitors, our Marketing Partners and our fans
to make plans now to attend!”
The 2010 Bay Mills Invitational Walleye Tournament will
feature several unique characteristics. First, the tournament
will feature the top walleye Pro Anglers focusing on the
newest 2010 product innovations from the fishing industry.
Second, the tournament will be limited to artificial baits
only, and third the field will be limited to only 50 boats.
The Pros will qualify for entry based on their participation
in the 2009 AIM Pro Walleye Series™:
• The 2009 AIM Angler of the Year will receive a
PAID entry.
• The 2009 AIM International Walleye Championship™
winner will receive a PAID entry.
• The highest placing Canadian “Sanctioned Team”
in the 2009 AIM International Walleye Championship will
receive the third invitation.
• The highest placing U.S. “Sanctioned Team”
in the 2009 AIM International Walleye Championship will
receive the fourth invitation.
• The remaining 46 invitations will be allocated,
in order (by registration date), to the following qualifiers:
1. Anglers that have fished ALL four AIM 2009 tournaments.
2. AIM Owners/Lifetime Members that have fished three of
the AIM 2009 tournaments.
3. Slots remaining, Anglers that have fished three of the
AIM 2009 tournaments.
Bay Mills Resort & Casino will serve as the tournament
headquarters, launch site, and the site of the daily weigh-in
stage show (which will also be featured LIVE on www.aimfishing.com.).
“The Soo” is located on the St. Mary’s
River, connecting the east end of Lake Superior to northern
Lake Huron. The area forms an ideal walleye fishery, with
a huge variety of structure from shallow structure and weeds,
rocky points, reefs, islands, and river channels. The river
and the expansive lake areas offer countless presentation
options. Shallow and deep jigging and shallow and deep trolling
are all proven techniques. Walleyes can be found throughout
hundreds of square miles of the waterway!
Bay Mills Resort & Casinos located on the shores of
Lake Superior in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan
has 2 casinos, 1,000 slots, 10 tables, a poker room, 142
lake-view hotel rooms, an RV park, 5 restaurants and bars,
plus a championship golf course. It is owned by the Bay
Mills Indian Community and is located at 11386 West Lakeshore
Dr., Brimley, Michigan 49715. (906) 248-3715, www.4baymills.com
Further information about AIM as well as up-to-the-minute
updates about tournaments can be found at the AIM web site:
www.aimfishing.com.
Anglers Insight Marketing, LLC™ (AIM) is a unique
tournament organization which is owned by stockholders,
the majority of which are Professional walleye anglers.
AIM Professionals are among the “All Stars”
of professional fishing, with cumulative HUNDREDS of years
of tournament experience, including countless tournament
victories, series championships, and Angler of the Year
titles. This insight and knowledge is now being employed
to provide the finest tournament experience for the participants,
and the maximum exposure for the host tournament sites and
corporate partners.
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