A method and apparatus for providing a real-time multimedia fishing tournament weigh-in data distribution system over the Internet. The system includes a data detection module for detecting components of real-time multimedia fishing tournament data. A client module residing at a tournament site obtains and distributes multimedia fishing tournament data received from the data detection module to a server module via the Internet. The server module in turn processes and streams the processed real-time multimedia fishing tournament data to one or more users coupled to the Internet.