…Christian Barker aka ‘The Chav Professor’ who impressed both the readers and the judges with his November feature Winter Chubbing.
In the opinion of the judges the piece was not just well written and illustrated but also provoked considerable forum debate, especially relating to the use of open bail arm fishing for chub, a little used and rarely written about aspect of chub fishing.
Congratulations go to Christian who will receive the monthly prize courtesy of our friends at Chapel Baits and will go forward to the final judging.
The December competition is well underway but there is still plenty of time for you to get submissions in as all pieces submitted before 01 January 2012 will be considered – and with all of that spare time in a turkey-stuffed and port-drenched haze with nothing on TV what excuse could you possibly have?
The competition runs from through to May 2012 inclusive, is open to anyone, irrespective of whether or not they have had features published on FishingMagic before; all we ask is that entrants are not regular writing contributors to the national angling media.
Features may be on any angling topic, fiction or non-fiction, humorous or serious, technical or story-based and on any angling discipline: coarse, sea or game.
Submissions should ideally be from 1,000 to 2,500 words in length and supplied as a Word document accompanied (if relevant) by four to eight JPG images to illustrate the words. It is hoped that grammar, spelling and punctuation will be of a reasonable standard but all will be corrected, if required, prior to publication on the site.
There is no limit to the number of features which entrants may submit per month and all features deemed by the FishingMagic Editor to be of an appropriate standard will be published in full.
At the end of each month FishingMagic readers will be invited to vote and comment on all of the entries and a monthly winner will be selected by the FishingMagic Editor, whose decision is final.
Each monthly winner will receive a bait pack worth £46 from Chapel Baits which will include: soft hookbaits, groundbait, dumbells and glugs from their extensive range.
At the end of the competition all monthly winners will go into a final judging and the overall winner will win a 12 month sponsorship by Chapel Baits (Full terms and conditions to be advised separately).
Submissions should be sent via e-mail to: editor@fishingmagic.com
