Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit 2015

Ponca City, Okla.—January 1, 2014—

MWC Lineup Includes traditional fish factories, new locations and competitions, plus more than 100% payback!

IN 2014 MWC total payback in cash and prizes was nearly 130%!

World-class walleye fishing, intense team-format competition and hefty payouts are on tap for the 2015 Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit. REGISTRATION FOR ALL EVENTS OPENS JAN 2, 3PM CST. MASTERSWALLEYECIRCUIT.COM

Based on 2014 MWC angler feedback and survey information\recommendations we have added some NEW FOR 2015 items detailed below.  For full details read the 2015 rules carefully.

NEW FOR 2015 –

STATE CHAMPIONS CROWNED AT EACH EVENT! Earn the “STATE CHAMPIONS” title!

• All MWC event(s) will be designated as one or more “State Championship qualifying events” for the state(s) that the event is being held in.

• For any state (Or Province) where MWC is NOT hosting an event in (for example Nebraska), the FIRST event on the schedule where (10) ten or more teams from a non-hosting state registers for an event will be designated as that states championship for that year and the highest finishing team from that state will be crowned as the 2015 State Champions. So talk to your buddies and sign up for an event!

• In states where MWC hosts only one MWC event each year (for instance PA) the winners of that event earns a State Champions title for that year for that state regardless of where they live.

• In states that MWC hosts 2 or more regular season MWC events in the SAME state, (for example MN, WI, MI) teams will be required to count scores for all events designated as hosted in that state to earn that state champions title.

• No state champion can be crowned without a minimum of 10 teams participating from that state.

• In the event of a MWC team whose anglers reside in two different states the state designation will follow the boat captain whose boat the team fishes from.

• State Champions prizes will include at a minimum, Custom State Champions trophy’s, Custom State Champions decals for boat and truck, a Spot in the Cabela’s NTC, pictures up on the New State Champions wall of fame page on the website, and more State Champions only benefits that will be announced.

NEW FOR 2015 –
MWC WILDCARD EVENT:

• MWC has designated (1) one late season events at Dubuque Iowa as a World Walleye Championship WILDCARD qualifier.
• Teams must sign up and fish the regular season MWC event that the wildcard qualifier is attached to in order to enter the wildcard qualifier.
• Additionally, teams MUST have fished at least two (2) other events during the season to be wildcard eligible, which would make the wildcard qualifier a team’s 3rd event of the season (minimum).
• Yearly points standings DO apply to the event however, DO NOT apply to the wildcard qualifier.

There will be an additional wildcard entry fee of $200 per team a minimum of 80% of which will be added directly to the World Walleye Championship payout. There will be (1) one WWC spot allocated for each 10 Wildcard entries. For example: If 33 teams sign up for the wildcard qualifier, 3 teams will earn spots to the WWC and each qualified team adds $1,760.00 to the WWC payout or an additional $5,280 to the total WWC payout. (Verses a team fishing 3 regular events and qualifying for the WWC who puts $385.50 into the WWC payout.  The balance will go to help support the Team of the Year and State Champions prizes.

NEW FOR 2015 –
More ways to earn MORE money $$ and SIMPLIFIED qualification guidelines for the World Walleye Championship.

NEW Option Pot and NEW DOUBLE your money World Walleye Championship!

NEW – OPTIONAL $350.00 100% payback Option Pot in addition to regular entry fee. Purely OPTIONAL for those that WANT to fish for MORE $$ YOUR choice.

• At the request\feedback of anglers we have added an OPTIONAL $350.00, 100% payback option pot, payable only to those anglers who pay into the option pot.

• If you do not understand how a side option pot works ask a tournament official before signing up for it.

• All entry fees including option pot entries must be made before registration closes for the event.

• Option pots CANNOT be paid on site at check in and option payout will be announced at the rules briefing. Payments must accompany each entry OR be paid before the close of registration. Premier teams too must call in and pay any option pot fees for each event if they want in the option pot.

NEW – DOUBLE YOUR MONEY World Walleye Championship! (WWC) 100% paid back.
$750 Entry Fee to World Walleye Championship qualifiers and GUARANTEE to each WWC team who attends and catches at least one legal fish a MINIMUM payback of $1500 or DOUBLE your entry fee back for every qualified team! Every team who attends will earn a check just for participating at the WWC just like in years past. However for those who simply weigh in one legal fish, they will double their entry fee! There is no easier way to DOUBLE your money!

NEW – Based on Angler feedback simplified WWC qualification rules!

Teams can only qualify for the World Walleye Championship once, and the order they will be taken will be;

• 2015 Top 45, which is 1-45 places in the Points Race, special event winners, 2015 Cabela’s National Team Champions (NTC); 2014 World Walleye Champions; 2015 Qualifier winners, wildcard qualifiers;
• Any duplicate qualifiers in the above will proceed down the standings as far as 50th place, then to Premier Teams ONLY past 50th place.
• Teams may fish as many events as they wish however, only a team’s top 3 scores will be used for WWC qualification standings.

MWC CIRCUIT UPDATE:  Breaking News!

Good luck to you all  in 2015!

Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit Announces 2015 Schedule

Lineup Includes Traditional Fish Factories, New Locations And Competitions, Plus More Than 100% Payback!

Ponca City, Okla.—Nov. 11, 2014—World-class walleye fishing, intense team-format competition and hefty payouts are on tap for the 2015 Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit season.

Announced today, the MWC’s 31^st season will feature premier destinations including a mix of traditional favorites and exciting new fisheries, all hand-picked by the anglers themselves. Leaning heavily on the results of last season’s midyear angler survey, the Circuit expanded the trail to 12 events, including 11 regular-season tournaments plus the 2015 World Walleye Championship—which had already been announced for Huron Ohio, October 21-24, 2015.

The 2015 season will also offer two-person teams a variety of new features, programs and contests, along with several rule changes suggested by MWC anglers that will be announced in the coming weeks. As has been the case the past two years, payback will top 100 percent in cash and prizes, just as it did in 2014, which rewarded MWC anglers with a total payback of more than 127% percent!

In all, nine different states will host 2015 MWC events, complete with all-new State Champion’s titles as well as an end-of-the-season Wildcard Event. Details on these new opportunities and awards will be announced shortly. In addition, a minimum of four MWC events will be filmed for national television—which means recognition and exposure for all MWC anglers and sponsors has never been better.

“Our 2015 MWC schedule and programing has something for everyone,” said MWC Senior Tournament Director Dan Palmer. “We want to provide an affordable opportunity for all walleye anglers to compete, provide them all with the recognition they deserve, and allow them to have a great time while they’re at it.”

Palmer noted that the schedule is set in “wet cement,” meaning the Circuit does not anticipate any changes—but unforeseen amendments are possible. “We want to let all of our anglers know that due to the size and scope of the MWC as a national organization, some states we are visiting will not issue permits for 2015 yet—and some not until after the first of the year—so our schedule is always tentative based on those permit approvals,” he explained. “Occasionally, we are forced to move an event due to those issues, but we wanted to get the schedule out as soon as it was possible based on the best information available to us, so that our TWF clubs and MWC anglers nationwide can plan their seasons accordingly.”

The 2015 Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit schedule is as follows:

1. March 6-7 Stockton Lake, Stockton, MO *Also a Last Chance 2015 NTC qualifier (side pot)
2. March 20-21, Illinois River, Spring Valley Boat Club, IL *Also a Last Chance 2015 NTC qualifier (side pot)
3. April 17-18, Lake St Clair/Detroit River, Saint Clair Shores, MI
4. May 8-9, Sturgeon Bay, Little Sturgeon Bay, WI
5. May 15-16, Big Stone Lake, Ortonville, MN
6. June 19-20 Kinzua Reservoir, Bradford, PA
7. June 26-27 Lake Petenwell, Arkdale, WI
8. July 31-Aug 1, Little Bay De Noc, Escanaba, MI
9. Aug 7-8, Devils Lake, Devils Lake, ND
10. Sept. 11-12, Cass Lake, Cass Lake, MN
11. Sept. 25-26, Mississippi River, Dubuque, IA (MWC Wildcard Event)

2015 World Walleye Championship, October 21-24, Huron, Ohio

2016 World Walleye Championship (TBA in a separate press event)

Under the umbrella of The Walleye Federation (TWF), the Cabela’s MWC is open to avid walleye anglers from all walks of life. Registration for all events opens January 2, 2015. For more information, check back often at www.masterswalleyecircuit.com as season info is regularly updated.

Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter for hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, is entering its 14th season as title sponsor of the MWC. Official sponsors include: Berkley Gulp!, Abu Garcia,  Lowe Equipment Attachments, Lowrance Electronics, Mercury Marine, MotorGuide, Ranger Boats, The Walleye Federation and Zippo Outdoor Brands. Associate sponsors include: Church Tackle, Lindy Legendary Fishing Tackle, Okuma, Optima Batteries, Rockstar Hitch Mounted Mud Flaps and T-H Marine. For more information, visit masterswalleyecircuit.com, email info@masterswalleyecircuit.com, or call (580) 765-9031.

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Sprengel, Navis Win Cabela’s MWC World Walleye Championship

Presented by Cabela’s

For Immediate Release –

Devils Lake, N.D.—Oct. 11, 2014—Wisconsin’s Korey Sprengel and Derek Navis scored a white-knuckle, come-from-behind victory at the Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit’s 2014 World Walleye Championship on the High Plains paradise of Devils Lake, North Dakota, Oct. 9-11.

“It feels great,” said Sprengel, of Beaver Dam. “I didn’t know what to expect coming here. We just tried to cover as much water as possible and got some decent fish in practice, but nothing like we caught during the tournament.”

The Championship pitted 38 elite two-person teams against one another for lucrative payouts and ultimate bragging rights in the walleye world. Teams had qualified for the no-entry-fee event by earning points while competing on the 2013 Cabela’s MWC trail, which visited 10 world-class destinations from Colorado’s Pueblo Reservoir to Lake Erie out of Huron, Ohio.

Sprengel and Navis, of Brandon, rose through the ranks with progressively bigger baskets, notching 5-fish limits weighing 23-13, 29-06 and 32-10 for an impressive 85-13 total. It was the team’s second championship win, having earned top honors at the prestigious 2011 Cabela’s National Team Championship on Bays de Noc out of Escanaba, Michigan. They also won the title of Cabela’s MWC Team of the Year in the 2013 season.

“It’s very special to come into a new body of water like Devils Lake and figure it out, especially against all the great sticks in the Championship field,” said Navis. He and Sprengel collected a total of $24,000 in cash tied to their first place finish, along with the $1,000 Ranger Cup contingency, $500 Berkley Baits prize package and $500 Lowrance HDS Gen2 Touch and Elite 7 bonus. They also claimed the Rockstar Comeback Award, worth a two (2) $500 Rockstar Mud Flap Packages.

The champions targeted rocky riprap and boulders along flooded roadways lying in 18 to 27 feet of water in the Pelican Lake area. They trolled size 7 Berkley Flicker Shads 1.5 to 1.8 mph, using leadcore mainline tipped with a 15-foot leader of 20-pound-test Berkley FireLine. “Banging bottom was key to getting bit, and the FireLine leader was critical to reducing the number of crankbaits we lost to snags,” said Sprengel.

In second, Don Denning and Chad Maloy, both of Fargo, North Dakota, pocketed $10,000 for their 82-03 total, after finishing strong with a monstrous final catch of 36-12 that was big basket of day three.

Rounding out the top five were:

3rd Travor Diegel and Paul Steffen, 15 fish, 76-06

4th Spencer and Ron Deutz, 15 fish, 71-11

5^th Curtis Olivier and Doug Galant, 15 fish, 67-04

Al Freidig and Clint Devier collected the $250 Zippo Hot Hands Big Fish Award for catching a 10-pound, 5-ounce trophy walleye that was big fish of the championship.

Spencer and Ron Deutz won the $200 Optima True Blue contingency. In all, more than $126,000 in cash and prizes were awarded through the World Championship payout and Team of the Year race.

A total of 490 walleyes weighing 1,876 pounds, 8 ounces crossed the scale during the three-day tournament. Walleye fans of all ages watched the drama unfold at the weigh-ins, which were held daily at Grahams Island State Park.

Immediately following Friday’s weigh-in, the Cabela’s MWC, National Professional Anglers Association, Pure Fishing and Zippo Outdoor Brands presented a Youth & Family Fishing Clinic. The first 50 youths received rod-and-reel combos courtesy of the NPAA.

Adding to the excitement, on-the-water and weigh-in action was filmed for national television airing on Federation AnglerTV, on NBC Sports and the Pursuit Channel.

The first airing is set for December 1^st at 1:30pm CST on NBC Sports. Check federationangler.com for additional dates and airtimes.

Under the umbrella of The Walleye Federation (TWF), the Cabela’s MWC is open to avid walleye anglers from all walks of life. The 2014 trail included 10 qualifiers spread across seven states. Teams showcased their skills—and sponsor products—at venues such as the Illinois, Detroit and Mississippi rivers, Green Bay, Big Stone Lake, Kinzua Reservoir and Lake Erie.

Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter for hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, is concluding its 12th season as title sponsor of the MWC. Official sponsors include: Berkley Gulp!, Lowe Equipment Attachments, Lowrance Electronics, Mercury Marine, MotorGuide, Ranger Boats, The Walleye Federation and Zippo Outdoor Brands. Associate sponsors include: Berkley Trilene, Church Tackle, Lindy Legendary Fishing Tackle, Optima Batteries, Rockstar Hitch Mounted Mud Flaps, T-H Marine and Sea Grant. For more information, visit masterswalleyecircuit.com, email info@masterswalleyecircuit.com, or call (580) 765-9031.

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