What kind of fishing competitions do you have?

[RoK]

When a bunch of us get together, a competition of one sort or another always breaks out and a fishing trip to Kipawa is no different. We usually have bets on individual with largest walleye,  team bets on most walleye, and this year we will replace the team bet on most walleye with most over slot. Although we specifically target walleye, we still catch many other species so we also have an individual bet on most species caught.

What kind of fishing competitions do you have?

[CaptainCrappie]

A group of work buddies used to quite often charter for walleyes on Lake Erie out of Sandusky,  We typically had a $5.00 ea. pot for the first walleye, biggest walleye, and most walleyes caught. (6 guys, $30.00 per pot. $90.00 total for the three pots)  One trip, the lake had a small craft warning in place but we talked the charter captain in to going out anyways.  There were 7 ft. swells out there, very uncomfortable fishing and my hips were sore for weeks from banging into the sides of that boat.  We were drift fishing, or at least, trying to...  I won all three pots with the grand total of one walleye caught!  Only time that ever happened..

C.C.

[Dog]

Crystal Head Competition, explained here http://kipawafishingforum.net/index.php?topic=47.0

[Fort Wisers]

@Dog now that is priceless......great pics as well

[RoK]

Hey @Dog - wow, a very impressive chronicle of your trip. Looking forward to what you will post after this years trip. As for the competition rules, I like the Crystal Head Fish declaration. I think I may try to introduce a similar twist into ours.

[T-Bone]

Over the years our adherence to 'competitions' has waned; everyone is rooting for everyone else. We are fortunate enough to catch large numbers of fish, so keeping track becomes an issue. Measuring fish takes too long as, after all, if you're messing around with that your jig isn't in the water...and if you're jig isn't in the water you can't catch fish. Then comes the "was it in the boat?" indictments, "are you sure you're counting right?" questions, etc. To be honest, we're not likely counting right, and whether a fish is 'caught' or not becomes debatable.

I think most of all we just let those fade into the past as we realized the trip is about so much more than fishing that we really didn't care who won that piece of it or not, as long as we all have a safe and memorable trip.

[Oarin]

I agree,T-Bone.

[limacharley]

I must agree with TBone; we are there to fish; yes we have a little competition and the biggest fish gets his name on a trophy.
Everyone carries a cell phone these days so we snap a picture real quick on the measuring stick I provide all the boats and back she goes.
It's more about the good hearted teasing we fly at each other or the catching up we do around the campfire over a cold one.

[Tree cutter]

We have a small traveling trophy the biggest walleye gets to keep for a year plus everybody puts in 20 bucks for the biggest walleye . But the winner has to buy breakfast on the way out. About 6 years ago when the exchange was the same my brother lost money for winning because everybody ordered steaks and eggs. It must be the old sports Competition with us because once and while you wonder if they really miss the fish with the net or the did it on purpose.

[Balsams]

...prize should go to the one who gets the most brown bottle trout....