Fantasy Fishing?!?

[Phil Lilley]

FLW Outdoors offers richest fantasy sports payout in history

FLW Fantasy Fishing payout to include over $1.7 million in cash, prizes during Wal-Mart FLW Tour including guaranteed $1 million cash grand prize

Read it here

[Trav]

I am a 6-year veteran of fantasy football, champion of 5 of the 6 years, soon to be 6 out of 7. I read statistics, injury and practice reports, opposing match-ups and volumes of press to achieve success.

So a couple years ago I tried fantasy B.A.S.S. I didn’t really do as well as I did at football. In fact I didn’t even finish the season. Bass fishing isn’t a team sport (yet), so building a team seems an oxymoron when in real life most the guys participating wont even tell you what they ate for breakfast the day of a tourney.

Nascar isn’t a team sport either but they have them. It’s all a ploy to mainstream an event, so they can broaden a fan base, to collect more revenue from sales of sponsor product. To put it plain and simple. I guess you can turn anything into a fantasy game. Fantasy chess? Fantasy bowling? Fantasy bull riding? Fantasy Dog Shows?

I know of most the major anglers because I am an avid follower and reader of tourney publications. Still, even I can only recognize less than 20 percent of the names that drift on and off the tourney trails. I was in half a dozen competitions myself in the mid-90s. I am well aware that the failure rate is higher than starting your own restaurant. To think you can win the moneys of a fantasy-fishing format with knowledge and forethought is in itself a fantasy. You would have to be part of the design to know enough to win by any way other than luck.

That’s my view on it anyway. Haha. If you can sell it for a pile of beans I want half. Haha

[Danoinark]

What the heck, it might be fun to play and follow.

Dano