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I am pleased to announce this years biggest and most exciting contest on Fishing Fury, the first ever Fishing Fury Contributor Contest where you could win a custom Sportsman Trophy Plaque of your submission! Here is your chance to be immortalized on the internet and among your friends as a legendary fisherman and official Fishing Fury contributor!

* Contest ends at 12:00AM December 31st 2010, all entries must be confirmed prior to the cut off. Continue reading for rules and requirements.

Grand Prize

That’s right, the grand prize winner of the first ever Fishing Fury Contributor Contest will receive a completely original and one-of-a-kind Sportsman Trophy Plaque (valued at $95) just like the one above that I had made for Clive and his trophy catch on our last trip to Little Vermilion Lake. The great guys at Sportsman Trophy Plaque have even signed on as a sponsor for our site! I simply can’t thank them enough for their sponsorship and contribution of the grand prize!

Other Prizes

We haven’t confirmed our list of prizes for second and third place, and possibly even fourth and fifth, but we have a pretty good list of possibilities in products we know and love, and even products we’ve recently reviewed. Of course Rockstar Lures is already signed on with a prize of your choice of 3 custom Rockstar Lure spinnerbaits (excluding the extremely long Big Mama, I believe). And best of all, there should be plenty of new stickers and stuff that everyone who enters should get something.

Requirements

These are the rules for the 2010 contributor contest, please read them carefully. You must comply with all of the rules to be eligible for the grand prize, the high quality images are required to create (print) the best Sportsman Trophy Plaque possible. You must also confirm your entry and photo release to ensure your entry is counted, it’s just a simple as an email reply so don’t be scared.

All fish must be legally caught in 2010 under the stated rules of your local department of natural resources. No out of season fish will be accepted for this contest. In some cases we may ask you to provide us with help finding this information to validate your catch.

At least two high resolution (4 megapixel or greater) digital photos. We want the ones straight off your digital camera, no photoshopping or colour correcting allowed. Just the raw photos please. This is a requirement of the grand prize, though you could still potentially win secondary prizes with a low resolution photo, the higher resolution the better.

At least two paragraphs describing your experience, including a title, location, species of fish, weather conditions, lure, etc.

Your full name and email address, along with your photos and story, emailed to staff@fishingfury.com with the subject of “2010 Contributor Contest”.

Confirmation of your entry and photo release. This will be sent to you in reply to your entry, you’ll just need to reply and confirm to be entered.

Multiple entries are allowed, though you can only win one of the top prizes.

Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing your entries!

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June 13, 2010 by Jonathon Marshall

Filed Under: Alerts, Contests, Features, Fishing, Freshwater, Incredible, News, Photography, Reports, Saltwater, World
Tagged: 2010 Contributor Contest, contributor, department of natural resources, grand prize winner, high quality, little vermilion lake, photo release, plaque, prizes, quality images, sponsorship, sportsman, sportsman trophy plaque, sportsmans trophy plaque, stickers, trophy
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JonnyButts
1 week ago #

This may actually motivate me to remember to take the camera along on a few trips this year. Great contest lads.

woody
1 week ago #

That’s the worst timing ever, i’m in Australia on the 13th December and that’s gonna be my best Fishing ever and it will be too late!…Never mind, i’ll just have to hang on to the photo’s in case there’s a 2011 contest!

Clive Mathias
6 days, 23 hours ago #

We certainly hope to have this contest every year as long as we can get prizes lined up! Who knows, maybe it will be monthly one day!

Clive Mathias
6 days, 20 hours ago #

Updated to December 31!

woody
6 days, 4 hours ago #

I wish i had kept my big mouth shut now, the pressures on for me to catch something special!…I’m going 12000 miles to get something good and i fly back home new years eve so if i get my Fish of a lifetime it will be sent from Oz before the closing date!

cbiegel
5 days, 19 hours ago #

Sounds like fun! I’m going fishing in Alaska in early July so here’s hoping for a sweet salmon or huge halibut!

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Thanks to the hard work of Richard King, an associate professor in biology at NIU who has spent 30 years studying the Lake Erie water snake (Nerodia sipedon insularum), and his star student Kristin Stanford the species has now been removed from the threatened species list. Over the past 11 years they have tracked the population of this one-of-a-kind species found only in Ohio’s Put-in-Bay Harbor. Together they have been tagging and monitoring the species population and have successfully recovered the species. It’s a good thing too, because as it turns out the snakes are feeding on the invasive European goby and are slowly bringing balance back to their ecosystem.

You can also visit the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service website to learn more about the Lake Erie water snakes.

Megan Seymour, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, says King and Stanford are primarily responsible for the recovery of the species. Seymour says there were 1,520 to 2,000 adult Lake Erie water snakes when the population was first counted in 1999. Today, King says, there are more than 12,000 Lake Erie water snakes.

The snakes are a key predator in Lake Erie’s aquatic ecosystem — feeding on species such as mudpuppies and native fish such as walleye and smallmouth bass. Since the 1990s, the Lake Erie water snake has preyed upon an invasive fish species from Europe called the goby. The snake has played a vital role in decreasing the goby population, which competes with native fish for food and space.

via USA Today

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