Conference wahoo::fishing-v2

402.0. "World Cup Fishing" by NITMOI::WOOD () Wed Aug 10 1994 11:27

    Did anyone else participate in the North American World Cup Fishing
    Tournament sponsored by Chevy Trucks and Kmart amongst others? If so,
    how did you do? For those not familiar with the tourney, a 200$ prize
    was awarded in each US state and Canadian province, for the largest
    fish each day during June and July. There were 15 species included, and
    a equalization scale was used for each area and species at an attempt
    to make anglers chances equal. For example a Smallmouth Bass in NH was
    worth 48 points per inch. A Lake trout from NH might be worth 35 points
    and a trout from Manitoba might be worth 20 points an inch. The 100
    largest fish per region (5 regions in all) go to the regional finals
    for a 100,000 dollar purse and the 5 regional winners go to a winner
    take all 1 million dollars fish off labor day weekend. My daughter won
    State (NH) twice while I was on vacation and I won once. Last week
    we received fedx packages asking if we needed any special travel
    requirements for the regionals and if we would need a boat provided
    or would we bring our own! They also wanted photo's and affidavits to
    verify the catch was ligitimate. They fly you to, in our case Michigan,
    provide food, lodging and boat for 3 days. We're excited, but there was
    a disclaimer at the bottom that said they were planning all this in
    case we go to the regionals next week, but that we were not as of yet
    confirmed as participants....Whatever that means...I'm not sure if our
    fish have already been bounced against the other regional entries and
    they just want the photos and affidavit to confirm, or if they still
    need to do the comparison. We are keeping our fingers crossed...For
    what it's worth my daughter had a 19.75 inch and 19.25 inch smallie
    while dad had a 17.5 inch one...Realisticly mine doesn't seem big
    enough that it would make it, unless participation was really low,
    which is what I expect...The 19.75 fish is right up there with the big
    smallies I've seen/heard of over the years, so I would expect it to
    maybe take a position in the top 100....

    I saw the add and wanted to do it as I have caugth 
    a 23.5 inch LMB and a 20 inch SMB during july and
    aug.. but I though it was a promotional for $ but
    did you get any money/prizes or just a chance to 
    go on to the next event.
    
    thanks john
    

    I was in it. Unfortunately, I didn't catch anything worth a damn when I
    had my camera. When I didn't have my camera I got some beautiful
    Largemouths in the 24 inch range so I let them go without fame :^(.
    
    I spent the final week of the contest up at Moosehead Lake looking for
    the monster togue. Being that the water was the warmest it had been in
    years and the wind was predominately out of the South all week which
    for some reason shuts the fish down I only ended up with some small
    Lakers and Salmon.
    
    Maybe Next Year
    Good Luck on Your Entries.
    Bob M�

    We won 600.00 total so far, so there was a payoff other then
    advancing...One day, when we called in the 19.25 inch fish, it was
    the only fish entered that day in NH...a 5 inch perch would have won!
    All that money was just sitting there for the taking....That's why I
    suspect the participation was low...

    Wow!
    
    You have to like getting paid $600 to catch a nice smallmouth.  
    
    Congrats on the cash and the fish.
    Wess

    I guess we had some good news yesterday. My daughter and I found out we
    both are going to the regionals. The bad news is they delayed the
    regionals until next May...The story was they had a lot of problems
    with cheating and it will take some time to sort out, and in addition
    they were having lots of difficulty contacting all the participants
    in such a short time frame, probably because many people are on
    vacation this time of year....Maybe they just ran low on funding :-)