Inspired by the recent video posted by John Finney at Carp Quest on YouTube, I am currently brainstorming some ideas for a little friendly competition among friends next year.
I would like to drum up some interest in a Honor System Carp League in 2015.
It would work something like this:
- Sign up to participate in the league.
- No cost to sign up.
- The participants would establish a list of venues by popular vote.
- The frequency could be once a month or twice a month; again established by popular vote.
- League participants would fish specific venues on specific weekends.
- Fish could be caught on either Saturday or Sunday of the specific weekend.
- Fishing could occur anytime after midnight on Friday and before 8 p.m. on Sunday.
- We would make a post on the CAG Facebook page for Southeast Michigan Carp League Results on Sunday evening and then post our single big fish picture and weight in a comment under that post.
- The pictures would have to be posted by 8 p.m. on Sunday night of that weekend.
- No posts would be accepted with a timestamp after 8 p.m. Sunday.
- The closing post on that weeks main post would be the tally of the final results.
- I'd keep a running total of the results on this page as well, so it would be easier to read without scrolling through a bunch of Facebook posts.
- The league could run for a specific number of weeks: 4, 6 or 8 as a example and then crown a champion.
- There are a couple of ideas for scoring (revised today based on a suggestion in the comments below): 1) best 3 carp caught, 2) 10 pts. for biggest carp each weekend, 3) 1 pt. for every pound of carp netted, photographed and posted during the weekend time frame.
I'd be open to other ideas for improvements on the above guidelines and feedback on whether anyone might be interested in participating with me.
If having a league with running totals is too much of a commitment, we could just do one off weekends and have individual weekly winners. Or we could do some other variation of the above that I haven't thought of yet.
Here's a list of possible venues I am thinking of that have plenty of access as an example:
- Ford Lake
- Belleville Lake
- Mill Pond Park in Saline
- Huron River in Flat Rock
- Sterling State Park
Again, I am open to other locations. The qualifier is that they would need to have plenty of shoreline access so we'd be assured of fishing access no matter when we went to fish. This would also be an attempt to level the field and make it fair for all as much as possible so you can still catch fish if the "honey hole" area isn't available.
Another alternative is to make all the locations eligible every single weekend. That way if one location is not available, you could move to another one. That would also allow for fishing more than one venue during the weekend as long as only 3 fish are scored.
Here is a summary of my initial thoughts on how the score keeping would work:
Another alternative is to make all the locations eligible every single weekend. That way if one location is not available, you could move to another one. That would also allow for fishing more than one venue during the weekend as long as only 3 fish are scored.
Here is a summary of my initial thoughts on how the score keeping would work:
