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chartertalk
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AIM™ Announces Finalized Pro Walleye Series Tournament Format and Registrations.
Plymouth, WI – February 17, 2009. AIM™ announced today the final format for their AIM Pro Walleye Series™ tournaments and registration for the 2009 season.
AIM™ will conduct four Pro-Am walleye fishing tournaments in 2009. The first three AIM Pro Walleye Series™ tournaments will serve as qualifying events for the AIM International Walleye Championship™. Each of the AIM Pro Walleye Series™ qualifying tournaments will host fields limited to 100 Pro Walleye Anglers and 100 Co-anglers.
The AIM Pro Walleye Series™ tournaments will all be three day events. The Pro Angler provides the boat, all the fishing tackle and bait for the day. Each day the Co-angler will be paired with a different Pro Angler and have the opportunity to learn individual strategies and cutting edge presentations. The full field of 1 00 Pro Anglers and Co-anglers will fish the first two days. The top 50% of the Pro Angler field – based on cumulative weights over the first two days – will fish the third day of the tournament along with Co-anglers who were randomly drawn during the Rules Meeting prior to the event.
The AIM Pro Walleye Series™ tournaments include the following dates and locations:
May 22-24, 2009 Bay City, Michigan fishing Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron
July 2-4, 2009 Green Bay, Wisconsin fishing Green Bay on Lake Michigan
August 13-15, 2009 Akaska, South Dakota fishing Lake <st1>Oahe
Each AIM Pro Walleye Series™ qualifying tournament is scheduled to coincide with a regional festival that will provide large numbers of spectators. This guarantees the maximum exposure for professional fishing; the sponsor’s and host communities of AIM™ along with individual Pro Anglers themselves. Pro Angler entry fees for the 2009 AIM Pro Walleye Series™ have been set at $1,500 per event. For anglers who are not AIM™ owners or “Life Members” there will also be a $250 membership fee per event. Co-angler entry fees have been held to just $250 per event which will help attract a broader base of new Co-anglers to t! he sport. Co-anglers will not be competing for prizes based upon their placement in the event, but instead will be awarded prizes by drawings at the daily weigh-ins. AIM™ is also announcing guaranteed paybacks of not less than 100% of Pro Angler entry fees which will ensure a minimum of $150,000 in payouts, including a first place prize of $50,000 with a full 100 boat field in AI M Pro Walleye Series™ events.
The AIM International Walleye Championship™ will be held September 2-4, 2009 on Lake Winnibigoshish in northern Minnesota. Pro Anglers will qualify for the Championship by fi shing at least one AIM Pro Walleye Series™ tournament. The top three Pro Anglers in the cumulative “Angler of the Year” rankings after the first three qualifying events will receive FREE entries to the Championship. In addition, the two Pro Anglers that post the largest improvements in Angler of the Year standings from the first event to the end of the third event will also receive FREE entries to the AIM International Walleye Championship™.
Scott Matheson, AIM™ President and CEO reports, “The AIM International Walleye Championship will truly be an “international” event. Entries to our Championship will include the top finishers from national, regional and local walleye t ournament organizations from across the U.S. and Canada. Each of these organizations hosts talented anglers who have the skills and desire to compete in this true Championship event, and we welcome each of them. Our initial commitment was to ‘raise the bar’ in tournament fishing and introduce a s! eries of exciting innovations. The AIM format for 2009 accomplishes all this, and more!”
All AIM™ tournaments will incorporate the exclusive AIM™ Catch, Record, Release™ (CRR) format. The process will include the Pro Angler and Co-angler measuring the length of each walleye, ta king two digital photos, and immediately releasing the fish. At the daily “weigh-in” the lengths of the seven largest walleyes will be converted to weights and counted in the cumulative total weight for the Pro Angler. The photos and weights of walleyes will be displayed both on stage and on the AIM™ website to give viewers an idea of the quantity and quality of fish caught by the competitors. On the third day of each event weights will be tallied as the fish are caught by the tournament leaders, and will be streamed on the AIM™ website along with video taken that day providing excitement never before seen in walleye tournaments.
“CRR will bring us back to the head-to-head competition that this sport needs” emphasizes Pro Angler Gary Parsons, “It will eliminate the guesswork that slot limits and culling restrictions have brought to walleye competitions. We’ll be back to fishing on great bodies of water where the angler who catches the biggest fis h – wins!” Catch, Record, Release™ will also eliminate the concerns by local anglers and fisheries managers of excessive fish harvest or mortality of released fish.
Registration for AIM Pro Walleye Series™ events is now available online at www.aimfishing.com, or by mail and telephone at 920-526-3399
Anglers Insight Marketing, LLC (AIM) is an angler owned organization dedicated to lead the fishing industry in competitive angling through the insight and knowledge of its owners who are predominantly p articipants in the sport.
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For more information, contact:
Anglers Insight Marketing LLC
PO Box 110
Plymouth, WI 53073
Office: 920-526-3399
smatheson@aimfishing.
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eyesorbust
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Hi Bob,
I paid my co-angler fee for the AIM tourney in Bay City, do you know when the make the decision on which co-anglers are selected?
Thanks,
Jamie
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eyesorbust
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Hi Bob,
I paid my co-angler fee for the AIM tourney in Bay City, do you know when the make the decision on which co-anglers are selected?
Thanks,
Jamie
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FISH ON!
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| Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:47 pm |
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chartertalk
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Anglers Insight Marketing™ Announced Tournament Boundaries.
Plymouth, WI – April 30, 2009- AIM™ announced today the boundaries for the Bay City, Michigan Pro Walleye Series™ tournament.
AIM Pro Walleye Series™ tournaments are scheduled to take advantage of great fisheries at the peak of the bite. AIM Pro Walleye Series™ tournaments are also scheduled for bodies of water that maximize the options for fishing success for the angler contestants. This is especially true of the first 2009 event to be held on Saginaw Bay, out of Bay City, Michigan.
Saginaw Bay is a great spring fishery for hungry, post-spawn walleyes. Walleyes will be everywhere – from the Saginaw River, to the “Inner Bay”, to the expansive “Outer Bay” – a total of literally hundreds of square miles. As is the case with all AIM Pro Walleye Series™ tournaments, there are no boundaries imposed on the anglers under normal weather conditions. Bay City contestants may fish any legal Michigan waters, wherever they find feeding walleyes.
Given that the Bay City tournament is held on a Great Lakes body of water, AIM may have the need to impose its in-climate weather boundaries, which will restrict the fishing to the Saginaw River (out to the first buoy at the river mouth) in marginal weather conditions. This should allow for three full days of fishing in all but the worst of conditions. For the safety of the participants, AIM does however reserve the right to cancel fishing when faced with severe! storms. In this case, the day is cancelled and no weights will be registered.
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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For more information, contact:
Anglers Insight Marketing LLC
PO Box 110
Plymouth, WI 53073
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