The owner of a small-town bait shop signs up for a fishing tournament hoping to use the prize money to save his shop from foreclosure.
Paradise Lake, near Kissimmee, Florida, is hosting a Professional Bass Association contest. Local bait-shop owner and former amateur champ Bill Dugan is in deep trouble: the bank wants $15,000 for the shop's mortgage. He doesn't tell his wife, who's angry when she finds out, and his wealthy blowhard father-in-law wants him to work for him. The tournament favorite is Hot Rod Johnson, a crowd-pleaser and ESPN darling who'll do anything to win. Bill's son Scott thinks Hot Rod is cool. Hot Rod opens a huge store close to Bill's, his ne'er-do-well pals are ready to desert him, and he may lose it all. His one hope is to enter the contest and win the prize. Time to fish or cut bait.—<[email protected]>
Its Barbershop for Rednecks. Bill is a bait shop owner who has to make a balloon payment of $15,000 or else the bank will close his shop. Unable to make the payment from the proceeds of the shop, Bill must compete in the annual Bass Tournament, which he pathetically loses every year, to win the money.
Starring Bill Engvall and Billy Ray Cyrus
