$100,000 for sitting on the couch

Fantasy fisher, Christopher Toring of Minneapolis, Minn., won $100,000 this week for picking the top finishers in a recent FLW Bass Tour event on Florida's Lake ToHo. It was the first of seven grand prizes the tournament trail will award over the next several months to armchair anglers who log on to fantasyfishing.com.

Toho was the first stop of the 2008 FLW bass tour. Toring will be eligible to compete for the $1,000,000 grand prize, a purse equal to that of the angler that actually wins the tour title. Toring credited using the Player's Advantage, a feature on the fantasy fishing website, with helping him pick the winning field.

Wesley Story of Clark Hills, S.C., finished second in the fantasy version of the season opener, and for his efforts, received a $5,000 gift card to Wal-Mart, which is the tour's title sponsor. Next up, a tournament in Birmingham, Ala. on April 3, where another $100,000 will be up for grabs.

The FLW Tour will give away $7.3 million in prizes this year, including cash, Ranger boats, a Chevy Silverado, Yamaha and BRP ATVs and personal watercraft, gift cards and free gasoline. Fantasy fishing is free to play.

Participants earn points based on their fantasy fishing team of ten anglers' placement finishes for each of seven events. The $1 million cash prize will go to the overall points winner at the end of the season. A $5 million bonus will be paid out to the first player to correctly rank the top seven finsheshers in a tournament.