Catfish Contest Thoughts

[SkunkedAgain]

Ok I’ll through this out there
Treat the contest as a race season, weekly entries of fish caught, points assigned for 1st through whatever place (number of participants) can be low or high score, monthly winner is determined by points, north vs south by most points at end of season. Eliminate the placard (no idea how this adds anything). A thread is started each week that all entries for that week are entered in ( 1 fish per week), scorer can quickly access the data, thread can be locked at end of week. Maybe change length to just inches.

Alan, I like the idea if we had the man power to cover that.  I'm afraid it's more than we could keep up with and we would have to have a lot more volume of participants to make it work, but if we get a high volume of people joining in, I think we need to look at this idea... It's a little more big time contest format that would really be fun when we get there... I'm not sure we're ready to make that big of leap at this time, but help me understand it a little better and maybe we are...

Justin, I know you are concerned about the cat contest not having the importance it has in the past and I've talked to a few others that have expressed the same thoughts, so I think we would look at one of the categories being catfish only, so all those that want to focus on cats exclusively could just focus on that category out of the six categories in the contest... And we can see what prizes are donated and if folks want their donation to go to one category, (catfish) then that prize would be awarded there for whatever reason they may specify... Will that work for your concerns?  Thanks everyone for all the great info and thoughts your sharing with me... I hope we can get something that will be fun for all and maybe even get those that have lost interest in the contest to look at it again... Thank you... Jeff

PS Alan, the placard is basically a way of showing the fish is current and not last years fish, I'm not techy enough to know if a picture date code was changed, so this let's us know the fish is current catch and part of the contest... I know they are a pain, can't count how many times the wind blows the placard or the fish flips or what other errors happen with our clumsy method of documenting our catches, but it does work and serves a purpose...  Oh you mentioned going to full inch measures, I was wondering about going the opposite direction and going to quarter inch, if they have a good bump board or accurate method to tell the length, the tape alone is pretty tough to get accurate measures so half inch is about as close as we can get for them.. Just another thought to help distinguish one place from another if you only get one fish per species...

Alan, the race fits much better into the cat only mode thanks for explaining that...  Jeff

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Okay maybe it's just the score keepers that like a break in the middle... I can see I'm over ruled on the the July off deal, but it seems most are in favor of breaking into two contests... I'm still watching comments and towards next weekend I'll start putting something together, probably won't make everyone happy, but hopefully it will end up fun... Thanks so much everyone for your time and comments, I know it's not easy to read all the posts and add your thoughts, but it sure helps me... Thank you... Jeff