THE 'Old Man Dave' Fish of the Month and Fish of the Year and Specimen Hunt COMPETITIONS 2013
This year the OMD FOM trophy will be a beautifully shaped trophy with the name of the winner engraved. These are hand-made by our very own spearo MIRROR [send him some rep!], with the kind help of venturesports/spearfishingstore.co.uk who will sponsor a prize at the end of the year.
We will run the Fish of the Month [FOM] in the same way as previous years; we will also run a separate Specimen Hunt [SH] competition over the course of the year.
The poll will be added on the 1st of each following month and will run for five days.
Please read the rules below before posting an entry.
FOM Rules:
1. The entrant must have posted five times at, or before, the last day of the previous month to the current competition.
2. Entries to be accompanied by a photo containing a newspaper or magazine dated on the day of the catch; the date is to be clearly legible.
3. All legal species are included, local minimum size limits should be observed.
4. Entries must be posted by 09:00 on the first day of the following month of the competition.
5. Winners will be chosen by a poll. In the event of a draw the first entry posted will be declared the winner.
6. Voting will last for five days after the poll opens.
7. Multiple entries are allowed, but only one entry per person can be forwarded for the poll.
8. More than twenty entries will be shortlisted to twenty by the db staff.
9. Catches to be weighed in pounds and ounces.
10. The FOM & SH will run from March to October, inclusive.
11. All decisions made by db staff are final.
Specimen Hunt [SH] additional rules:
12. The winner of the specimen hunt competition will be the spearo with the most percentage points accumulated over the year. Details of how points will be awarded are given below.
13. To enter the SH, the fish should be entered in the FOM as above, and it should be clearly stated that the fish is also for entry into the Specimen Hunt.
14. ONLY the fish species given in the table below, which meet the minimum size requirements given in the table, may be counted in the SH: 16 species to try for.
15. In the case of a draw, a poll will be run to decide the winner by public vote.
16. SH Points are awarded as follows:
fish #% = [a X d] + b ['a' multiplied by 'd' then add 'b']
score % = (fish X% + fish Y% + fish Z% + etc) / number of fish of that species entered:
a: % points for fish weight as a percent of the "Specimen Fish Weight"
b: % points for catch report [awarded at the discretion of the DB staff].
d : multiplier: the first fish of a species entered is worth 1 x the above 'fish #%' points; subsequent fish of the same species added to the SH may be counted but will be subject to a multiplier of x 0.7 . These will then be averaged with the first fish score to produce the % score for that specimen.
- Please note the larger minimum size requirements given in the SH table.
- Please note that a good catch report/contribution on the forum will be rewarded as part 'b' above.