2014 Lund Tournament Trail

Lund Boat Company announces their Lund Tournament Trail

Lund Boat Company announces additional grassroots tournament support in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario, Canada, for a total prize purse of $15,000.

New York Mills, Minn. (Dec. 3, 2013) – The history of tournament angling and support runs deep in the Lund Boat Company history. For several decades, Lund has offered contingency support to anglers who have aspired to be the best‐of‐the‐best and compete amongst some of the best anglers in North America. It doesn’t happen overnight and takes a great amount of time, effort and money to learn the skills required to be a professional angler. “We’ve discussed expanding our grassroots tournament support internally for a while now, and we have decided that this location is the perfect starting point for the Lund Tournament Trail,” states Lund Boats Director of Marketing, Jason Oakes. “Two important things we wanted to address were to strengthen our support of the grassroots tournaments, and to keep the costs to the Anglers down. So, there will be no additional cost to the angler to enter the Lund Tournament Trail.

Just support the local tournaments within the trail, and you will be automatically eligible for the Lund Tournament Trail purse.”

The Lund Tournament Trail is based off a simple point system by which anglers can earn points from six participating tournament venues. Anglers will earn 150 points for a first place finish,

149 for a second place, and 148 for third, continuing to decrease until the entire field has received their points for the respective tournament.

Points are earned and accumulated by each angler individually, even if they are earned while in a team format. Final point awards will be the highest scoring anglers in four of the six tournaments. Anglers have a choice to fish only four tournaments to qualify or to fish five or all six tournaments. Those fishing five tournaments will be given the opportunity to remove their lowest tournament score, while those fishing all six tournaments; will have the opportunity to remove their two lowest scores.

If you are fortunate enough to stand on the first place podium, you will net a cool $7,500 in prize money. In addition, if you fished out of a Lund Boat in each tournament – you would net an additional $2,500 for a total payday of $10,000. “Even though you don’t have to fish out of a Lund to win the $7,500 top prize, we certainly are going to award the top placing angler who did – we definitely want to support our anglers with a little bonus,” says Special Events & Pro Staff Coordinator Ryan Sproule.

The second and third place Angler of the Year finishers will receive $3,000 and $2,000, respectively.

The Lund Tournament Trail selected events are as follows:

 Russell Prairie Classic – Manitoba – June 7 & 8

  Dryden Walleye Masters – Ontario – June 21 & 22

 Minaki Walleye Classic – Ontario – July 5 & 6

 Gary Roach Pro‐Team – Ontario – Aug. 16 & 17

 Red Lake Fall Classic – Ontario – Aug. 30 & 31

 Kevin Frykland Memorial – Manitoba – (Date TBD)

Please stay tuned for more information regarding the Lund Tournament Trail.

About Lund

Since 1948, Lund has been building boats from the heart of lakes country in New York Mills, Minnesota. Built with professional grade materials to withstand a lifetime of use, Lund Boats are guide tested and wilderness proven and demanded by more camps, resorts, fishing guides and professionals throughout North America. Whether the preference is aluminum or fiberglass, each boat is carefully designed with fishing features and optimal fishing layouts in mind. They’re engineered for maximum performance and superior boat control to effortlessly stay on the breaks and catch more fish, delivering The Ultimate Fishing Experience. Lund Boats – Built by Fishermen for Fishermen.

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