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Greensboro man reels in $100K in fantasy fishing league

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

(Updated Friday, June 6 - 2:13 pm)

By Margaret Moffett Banks
Staff Writer

GREENSBORO -- Think fantasy fishing is just a waste of time?

You're wrong. It's an incredibly lucrative waste of time.

Reginald Pickett of Greensboro won $100,000 in FLW Outdoor's Fantasy Fishing tournament. Fantasy fishing officials will hand over the check Thursday morning.

Get this: If the professional anglers on Pickett's imaginary team keep on catching big, fat bass, then he could win $1 million.

Pickett, 55, says he'll use the $100,000 to pay some bills, buy a fuel-efficient car and get his wife, Sandra, an outside storage building.

Pickett is an electronics technician for the U.S. Postal Service's processing center on Pleasant Ridge Road. He follows the sport pretty closely, even competes in fishing tournaments himself from time to time.

Fantasy fishing is similar to fantasy baseball (except for the fish). You draft a team of pros and win points based on their performance in various fishing tournaments. Four of Pickett's picks finished in the top 10 in recent weeks.

It's pretty easy, Pickett says, especially if you keep an ear out for what the fishing pundits are saying -- evidently there are fishing pundits out there.

Contact Margaret Moffett Banks at 373-7031 or margaret.banks@news-record.com