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Tournament features $100,000 in first place prizes

Oshkosh, Wis., (May 8, 2002) — The $2.9 million Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Circuit
will visit Lake Winnebago May 29-June 1 with 300 top pros and co-anglers
competing for a share of $346,000 cash in the season’s third tournament.

Directed by FLW Outdoors and named after Wal-Mart and boat manufacturers
Ranger, Crestliner and Lund, the Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Circuit is the world’s
most lucrative walleye fishing series. Each of the circuit’s four regular
season tournaments features a cash purse of $346,000 with $50,000 cash and a
fully rigged Ranger, Crestliner or Lund boat powered by Evinrude or Yamaha
going to the winning pro. The top co-angler earns $15,000 cash. Pros and
co-anglers fish for a combined five-walleye limit and receive cash payments
to 50th place.

One hundred and fifty Ranger, Crestliner and Lund boat owners comprise the
Pro Division while 150 co-angler berths are open to the public. Anglers in
both divisions fish in three elimination rounds. After the two-day opening
round, the field is cut to the top 20 pros and top 20 co-anglers who advance
to the one-day semifinal round. The top 10 pros and top 10 co-anglers after
the semifinal round advance to the finals. Catch weights carry over for the
first two days, but anglers start the semifinal and final rounds from zero.

Weigh-ins during the first two days of the four-day tournament will be held
at Pioneer Resort in Oshkosh starting at 3 p.m. each day. The semifinal and
final round weigh-ins May 31 and June 1 will be held at the Oshkosh Wal-Mart
located at 2035 South Koeller Street at 4 p.m. each day. Takeoff will be at
7 o’clock each morning at Pioneer Resort.

Ranger pro Mark Brumbaugh, Crestliner pro Rick Olson and Lund pro Scott
Glorvigen are a few of the walleye fishing superstars who will be competing
in the Lake Sharpe tournament.

The fourth and final regular season Wal-Mart RCL Walleye tournament is June
26-29 on Saginaw Bay in Bay City, Mich.

Following the tournament, 200 pros and 200 co-anglers from the Wal-Mart RCL
Walleye Circuit and other sanctioned tournament organizations and events
will compete in the $1.4 million Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Championship for a top
pro award of up to $400,000 cash and a top co-angler award of up to $150,000
cash. The championship will be held on the Mississippi River near Red Wing,
Minn., Oct. 2-5. Green Bay, Wis., hosted the Wal-Mart RCL Championship last
season when Dean Arnoldussen of Kaukauna, Wis., won $400,000 and instantly
joined the sport’s top all-time money winners.

Entry fees for regular season tournaments are $1,250 for pros and $500 for
co-anglers. A limited number of co-angler spots are still available in each
tournament.

“We are excited about the Wal-Mart RCL Walleye Circuit’s first visit to
Oshkosh and Lake Winnebago,” said Mark Dorn, director of walleye operations.
“The lake is a great fishery and Oshkosh is a wonderful community with a
keen interest in walleye fishing.”

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