FLW Outdoors Announces 2012 Walmart FLW Tour Schedule, Detroit River in August

[djkimmel]

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FLW Outdoors Announces 2012 Walmart FLW Tour Schedule

World championship of bass fishing, Forrest Wood Cup, returns to Lake Lanier, Detroit River back on the schedule

MINNEAPOLIS (June 15, 2011) – FLW Outdoors announced the 2012 Walmart FLW Tour schedule Wednesday. The 2012 season will feature 10 tournaments: six FLW Tour Majors and four FLW Tour Opens. The Forrest Wood Cup, the world championship of bass fishing, will return to Lake Lanier and the Gwinnett Center in Hall and Gwinnett Counties, Ga., following the tremendous success seen there in 2010.

Complete story on GreatLakesBass.com Tournament News

Schedule (as of 6/15/2011) below.

[djkimmel]

Date         Fishery / Location                 Tournament
Feb 9-12     Lake Okeechobee Clewiston FL       FLW Tour Open
Mar 8-11     Lake Hartwell Anderson SC          FLW Tour Major
Mar 29-Apr 1 Table Rock Lake Branson MO         FLW Tour Major
Apr 26-29    Beaver Lake Rogers AR              FLW Tour Major
May 17-20    Potomac River National Harbor MD   FLW Tour Major
Jun 7-10     Kentucky Lake Gilbertsville KY     FLW Tour Major
Jun 28-Jul 1 Lake Champlain Plattsburgh NY      FLW Tour Major
Aug 9-12     Lake Lanier Gainesville GA         Forrest Wood Cup
Aug 23-26    Detroit River Detroit MI           FLW Tour Open
Sep 20-23    Lake Wheeler Decatur AL            FLW Tour Open
Oct 11-14    Sam Rayburn Reservoir Lufkin TX    FLW Tour Open

[Buckeyenut313]

Did the FLW "tweak" the rules in order to prevent locals from entering these Opens?

[Team houston]

As a boater you have to enter all of the Majors. The opens are as they imply "open"