Fantasy sports have become almost more popular than the regular sports games themselves. People watch the games to track their players on a regular basis but are primarily concerned with the stats and points listed on their computers anymore than the actual games it seems. While football and baseball have been the major games in the world of fantasy sports there’s a new one gaining popularity, fantasy fishing.
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Now it sounds pretty ridiculous but fishing is actually a competitive fantasy sport like baseball, football, basketball and hockey only it’s one people do themselves like tennis, swimming, or golf. Bass fishing is the most popular form of competitive fishing and has a following of millions. Professional and amateur anglers complete weekly and monthly all over the United States to catch the largest bag of fish and win over $100,000 each tournament through the FLW (Forrest L. Wood) Outdoors tournament circuit.
Fantasy fishing, which is run through the FLW (www.flwoutdoors.com) is completely free to play. All you have to do is sign up for a free account, read the rules and register a team before each tournament. You get to pick ten professional anglers before each tournament and watch daily as they weigh in, hoping they’ll make it into the top ten. For tour events at the end of the second day the ten anglers who have weighed in the largest bags (maximum of five fish each day) go on to fish for two more days and compete for a chance at $100,000 plus a bonus of $25,000 if the winner owners a Ranger boat.
As a participant in fantasy fishing the person who scores the most points can also win money and prizes. First place each tournament is also awarded $100,000 with prizes ranging from gift cards to free fishing tackle. Like all
fantasy sports, the key to success is doing research on the anglers fishing. Their stats overall, their experience on that particular lake as well as any information you can find on fishing forums and such about their pre-fishing or practice days. It’s not only fun and easy but the best fantasy sports team you could ever become involved with. Combine the money and prizes at stake with the fact that the time commitment is far less than that of other fantasy sports and you have a recipe for a great time.