03-01-2023, 02:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-01-2023, 03:50 PM by SkunkedAgain.)
Great ideas everyone, Let's keep the ideas going and dig deeper into how we would implement some of these. I know I was all crazy about the multi species contest because of my love for the ice challenge, but we were shot down pretty hard a couple years back when we thought about trying it then... I hope the interest is there to expand things, but I will for sure need more help managing this... Jim has offered his help and we could also use some help with the prize packages... One other question, how would you recommend getting Sportsmans and other tackle dealers to join in helping sponsor the contest? Is this something we would do store by store or try to get a corporate deal going? I know CAL Ranch has always been a great supporter with prizes for our contests and they seem to be less corporate structured so they are easier to work with... Smith and Edwards will hopefully be willing to help... Pretty sure if we market this correctly, it could result in more BFT members and participation... Lots of great ideas everyone....
Justin, I think the rule reads if they are 16 at the beginning of the contest they qualify as youth, but I'll have to check that you know how good my memory is lately...
Lance do you think you and Cookie might be able to help with the contest management if we expand? Thanks J
Craig, I love the idea of "guided trips" or draw a partner trips.... Let's see if folks would be willing to do that?
Pat, as you can see I've incorporated a lot of your thoughts throughout my rant... I kind of wonder if the ice challenge format might work for some of the ideas you have presented, and it may help fill what others have suggested as well... Here's my reasoning for the ice challenge format: There are too many species to do prizes for everything, however, in ice challenge we divide fish into 5 categories. Panfish, Trout, Bass, Predator and everything else... If we had a prize for each category and then did a similar decathlon overall score winner that might be fun. This would also give a way that if you only like trout or bass or catfish, you could concentrate on winning that category and not worry about the rest and we could market prizes to each category depending on those interested in that category... (wonder if I'm making any sense?) Before I go too nuts developing this let's take a breather and see if anyone is interested in this type format... I'm not wanting to kill the catfish contest, and I expect that it can continue within this same format, but not sure if we want to stick to the 3 top fish score... I need your thoughts on this I don't want to go away from a classic, but I have heard from many that I've talked to, that they don't like to be only focused on catfish... Let me know your thoughts.... Jeff
Justin, I think the rule reads if they are 16 at the beginning of the contest they qualify as youth, but I'll have to check that you know how good my memory is lately...
Lance do you think you and Cookie might be able to help with the contest management if we expand? Thanks J
Craig, I love the idea of "guided trips" or draw a partner trips.... Let's see if folks would be willing to do that?
Pat, as you can see I've incorporated a lot of your thoughts throughout my rant... I kind of wonder if the ice challenge format might work for some of the ideas you have presented, and it may help fill what others have suggested as well... Here's my reasoning for the ice challenge format: There are too many species to do prizes for everything, however, in ice challenge we divide fish into 5 categories. Panfish, Trout, Bass, Predator and everything else... If we had a prize for each category and then did a similar decathlon overall score winner that might be fun. This would also give a way that if you only like trout or bass or catfish, you could concentrate on winning that category and not worry about the rest and we could market prizes to each category depending on those interested in that category... (wonder if I'm making any sense?) Before I go too nuts developing this let's take a breather and see if anyone is interested in this type format... I'm not wanting to kill the catfish contest, and I expect that it can continue within this same format, but not sure if we want to stick to the 3 top fish score... I need your thoughts on this I don't want to go away from a classic, but I have heard from many that I've talked to, that they don't like to be only focused on catfish... Let me know your thoughts.... Jeff
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