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Originally Posted by JPPLAY
The thing with doing a competition for whitefish is that fisherman if they get their limit of whitefish keep all the fish and if we included suckers they are a fish that no one else wants. I don't think it would be bad to represent spearfishing this way. We can set the limits lower like 3 whitefish and 2 non-gamefish. That way it still shows skill in that you had to stalk all those fish not that you just blundered onto one big fish.
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I agree with you all the way: if you're within the legal harvest limit and keep moderated, no one has the right to complain, and if they do, just piss them off. I also agree that bouncing on a big fish doesn't show skills, especially if the big one is a carp.
In my country we have official lake competitions and also a lake national championship, with the following catch rule (in
official competitions the normal legal harvest limit doesn't count): maximum 10 cyprinidae (carp, tench et cetera); max 10 eels; max 10 salmonidae; max 10 perciformes (perch, black bass et cetera); max 5 pikes et cetera. Every category has a difficulty coefficient, which is multiplied by the weight of each fish caught to have your final score.
Prizes are medals, cups and...brand new spearguns offered by the sponsors. In Italy lake competitions are taken so seriously that the best 2 of the lake national championship automatically qualify for the national champ finals
in the sea!
Enjoy it.
