In another incredibly difficult month for judging it took a split decision to separate what were deemed to be the top two entries and the judges’ decision as to the top two were the same as those selected by voters on the forum poll: Eddy Widdup’s – Trotting for Big Chub and Sean Meeghan’s – Chub Fishing on a Rising River both of which were entertaining, informative and thought / discussion-provoking features.
In the end Sean got the nod by the narrowest of margins so congratulations go to Sean who will receive the monthly prize courtesy of our friends at Chapel Baits and will go forward to the final judging.
The February competition is now underway but there is still time for you to get submissions in as all pieces submitted before 01 March 2012 will be considered – indeed this year you have a whole extra day to get writing so you have no excuses whatsoever!
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
