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Later that day, a crowd of 10,000 filled the basketball arena connected to the convention center to watch the weigh-in of the day's fishing action. Amid a snazzy production of music, lights, video highlights and patriotism, the big moment came down to the contestants pulling fish out...
Half a million for a fishing contest? Sounds crazy. Absolutely, says Irwin Jacobs, the genial chairman of Genmar Holdings Inc., which owns the FLW Tour: that's hardly enough money. So Jacobs is raising the big prize to $1 million next year and promising a celebrity pro-am, the Pebble...
Jacobs is one of the big fish in the Bassplex, a subset of the gross domestic product propelled by some 50 million people who fish, spending more than $75 billion annually, and in particular those who pursue Micropterus salmoides. That overgrown sunfish with the large yap is found in 49...
?In professional bass fishing there are two pro circuits and more than 25 minor leagues, as well as leagues for walleye in the north. The FLW has added redfish and kingfish tournaments as it expands into saltwater pursuits. It underwrote 214 events this year, handing out more than $30...
?Pro bass fishing appears on two television networks. ESPN, which spent $40 million to buy the Bassmaster Tour, and Fox, which sponsors the FLW, are going fin to fin for supremacy (see box).