2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/skwinn16.htm

Nice work Chris. Managed to hold off Jigman on his walleye quest.

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

For the record, I submitted my last beast in late November to the state for the program and never heard back! Something fishy going on over there! She was the same length, maybe a fuzz larger.

That's ok though... Motivation to stick a 30 in 2017! :D

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

Thats all jeremy!👍🏻 Decent fish but nothin crazy big🤗really wish they wouldnt only give you thirty days to submit entry when the bites on its to fish not fill out paper work😴💤💤💤💤

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

Wow it is getting to the point where they should probably cancel this program. Over half the species had no entries.

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

your walleye was 28.49 and everyone knows it! :p

takes like 3 minutes to fill out the form and print it with pics. I've suggested to them to switch it to a fully online submission like in-fisherman does for their master angler contest, but for some reason they still use snail mail.

I've noticed a lot less submissions since they started requiring an actual picture proving the length of C&R fish...tells me there was a lot of exaggerating fishermen...:rolleyes:

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

Aghhhhh online wouldnt be bad!! The whole print the paper out thing out print the picture send it in its a pain! 30 days pain! Noone is printing a stack of 100 forms and having them ready like a weirdo🤔 Biggest fish of the year then what matter how many days after it was caught... do away with the whole thing and stock bigger fish instead👍🏻

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

28.51!!!!

Online submission is more realistic esp bc 99% of people take pics with a smartphone. Uploading pics directly to the website with the necessary info would eliminate a huge time suck of printing out pics and docs and snail mailing in... I honestly never received a response about the last walleye I submitted back in late November 2016. Every other time I received some sort of snail mail in return.

It's a simple HTML build for the F & G website. Wouldn't take more than an hour to build.

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

"Something fishy going on over there"

I heard Chris sends coffee and donuts at least once a week with his entries ;):D

By the way congrats Chris!

Jim

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

I hear you..no clue why they don't do it online. I stopped submitting about 1/2 through the the year unless I had one bigger than on the leaderboard...forgot about the 'elite angler' category hahaha. Much more submissions would be made if it was totally digital, it would be easier for them...I see no down side.

Someone tech savvy should just do it for them and say here!

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

Agreed that online would make me send in more. I didn't send any in last year after sending in a few the years before. Not having to print them out, buy a stamp and mail it would make it a lot easier.

Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

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I noticed there are quite a few more catch-and-release submissions than killed submissions. I wonder why that is?

I would like to believe it's because skilled anglers know the value of releasing big fish to pass on their superior genetics and make other anglers happy.

I hope it's not because the requirement that the fish be weighed on a certified scale causes anglers to falsely claim they released the fish when they actually didn't.

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Re: 2016 Skillful Angler Awards
 

have you noticed that the C&R requirements are typically slightly lower than the equivalent weight requirements? So in other words C&R catches should be more commonly caught for any given species. It'd be smart if they did this purposely to promote catch and release. I wish they'd do away with the weighing in all together haha.