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Having read a few things regarding C & R, as a festival organiser I would love to make the Weymouth Meet/Festival next year 100 % C & R. With this in mind I would like to hear ideas or advice regarding C & R and how to realistically implement them into this years Weymouth festival. Obviously the benefits would be:
1) Protection of stocks.
2) Projection of a more modern positive attitude towards conservation.
3) Happy anglers.
Now taking into account the fact that I am planning a C & R section prize into next years festival, the implementing of total C & R you would think would be simple enough. But I dont have a great level of experience in the comp fishing scene, so I was planning to do it gradually. This years event was kept simple, mainly because it was the first. Im pretty sure most were happy? so next years was going to be along the same guidelines but with the C & R prize added for people to aim for. Obviously if you were to go for the C & R, youre hardly going to weigh-in for the main prizes. But also the C & R needs to well prized to attract the entrants. Although not everyone is interested in the prizes as a whole.
Next years C & R prize section was gonna to arranged as follows, please bear in mind the lack of match experience here.
Each entrant for the C & R prize were going to be given a tape with the festival original markings and to qualify, all that would be needed was a photo with the fish and tape. Fish primarly measured in length to be recorded for the prize. Simply adopting this into the main prizes to have a complete C & R would appear simple but for these inherent issues that are preventing it.
1) Photos may be of poor quality, therefore making length distinction tricky. ( Not everyone has good quality cameras, some may have none)
2) Actually getting a photo of the complete fish, in focus with the measure clearly showing.
3) Photos of caught fish that are extremely close in length (where milimeters get involved) Hard to judge based on a photo alone.
4) Abuse of photos.
Obviously these issues would also be present in the current idea for a C & R section next year within the other prize sections as well.
The best way but not at all practical would be to have the festival marshalled, but being a roving comp this could prove impossible due to the marks and distances etc. I even thought about each pair etc having a marshall but again impossible. I understand alot of professional events practice C & R especially in france, but with the use of boats and measuring boats this would be ideal. But we aint using boats and im slowly going insane with all this typing....
Thoughts please, dont want the festival or its entrants being looked down or labelled as fish killers by anyone.
Mick spoke to me ref the french comps as I didnt have a clue
1) Protection of stocks.
2) Projection of a more modern positive attitude towards conservation.
3) Happy anglers.
Now taking into account the fact that I am planning a C & R section prize into next years festival, the implementing of total C & R you would think would be simple enough. But I dont have a great level of experience in the comp fishing scene, so I was planning to do it gradually. This years event was kept simple, mainly because it was the first. Im pretty sure most were happy? so next years was going to be along the same guidelines but with the C & R prize added for people to aim for. Obviously if you were to go for the C & R, youre hardly going to weigh-in for the main prizes. But also the C & R needs to well prized to attract the entrants. Although not everyone is interested in the prizes as a whole.
Next years C & R prize section was gonna to arranged as follows, please bear in mind the lack of match experience here.
Each entrant for the C & R prize were going to be given a tape with the festival original markings and to qualify, all that would be needed was a photo with the fish and tape. Fish primarly measured in length to be recorded for the prize. Simply adopting this into the main prizes to have a complete C & R would appear simple but for these inherent issues that are preventing it.
1) Photos may be of poor quality, therefore making length distinction tricky. ( Not everyone has good quality cameras, some may have none)
2) Actually getting a photo of the complete fish, in focus with the measure clearly showing.
3) Photos of caught fish that are extremely close in length (where milimeters get involved) Hard to judge based on a photo alone.
4) Abuse of photos.
Obviously these issues would also be present in the current idea for a C & R section next year within the other prize sections as well.
The best way but not at all practical would be to have the festival marshalled, but being a roving comp this could prove impossible due to the marks and distances etc. I even thought about each pair etc having a marshall but again impossible. I understand alot of professional events practice C & R especially in france, but with the use of boats and measuring boats this would be ideal. But we aint using boats and im slowly going insane with all this typing....
Thoughts please, dont want the festival or its entrants being looked down or labelled as fish killers by anyone.
Mick spoke to me ref the french comps as I didnt have a clue