New Walleye Leader 21.5"

Mark Marah bests his previous catch by just a few. This 21.5" is the new Walleye leader

New Walleye Leader - 19.5"

Josh Olds is the new leader with this 19.5" Walleye caught on Lake of the Woods. The new leader narrowly edges the previous mark of 8"

Monster Walleye, New Leader

Mark Marah takes an early lead with this monster walleye! The word of the year was destroyed during the battle and therefore not present in the photo. Official length, 8"

2015 Contest Information

Welcome to the 2015 Big Fish of the Year! The contest has been live since January 1st. Hopefully if you're paid up you already know the species and word.

Just a reminder, we will still accept new entries but we want to keep to our entry principal. If someone is interested, please explain the contest but keep the species a secret until they've agreed to participate. We don't want people to only participate if their species of choice is selected. This defeats the purpose of the contest.

Entry fee is $20
The 2015 word of the year is, "Princess Sophia" (don't ask...)
The 2015 primary species is, Walleye
The 2015 bonus fish species, Largemouth Bass

2015 Payouts will be as follows:
Bonus Fish Winner - $40
Primary Species Winner - 100% of remaining entry $

For full rules please see our "Contest Rules" page. You can submit a photo by clicking the link above. It's just a standard email link, so remember to attach the photo.

We want to encourage everyone to submit photos even if you don't think it will win. It's also fun to use this as a bragging board. Or just to get your name on the leader board.

Have a good 2015 season!

2014 Winners!

Congratulations to Steve Gail who caught a nice 14" Crappie and took the win for the Big Fish of the Year.

The secondary fish or "bonus fish" was won by Chad Griggs with a 20.75" Smallmouth

The 2015 is underway. If you had paid you should know the species and word, if you don't please contact me. I will announce the full information on the website soon but I still want to allow time for more people to join. If you know anybody who is interested, please feel free to invite them. Good luck everyone!

2015 Contest

The 2015 Big Fish of the Year contest is just around the corner. We would like to be able to start the contest on January 1st, so we are accepting entrants now! The rules will be similar to the current rules listed above except with a new species and a new word. We also might rearrange the payouts to include more for the secondary fish, but that will depend on how many entrants we have.

As usual we want to keep the fish species a secret until the entrants have paid up. Remember this contest is multi species for a reason and we don't just want people to enter when their species of choice is selected. People will be able to join after the first of the year, but again, try to keep the species a secret until they commit to joining.

We encourage all new participants, so feel free to invite anybody who may be interested.

If anybody has any questions or ideas for the contest please let me know.

Qualified Primary Species
Bass
Walleye
Muskie/Pike
Crappie - Removed due to prior year selection

Qualified Secondary Species
Largemouth Bass
Smallmouth Bass - Removed due to prior year selection
Walleye
Pike
Muskie
Crappie

New Leader, 14" Crappie

Steve just caught a 14" Crappie through the ice. Steve is our new leader. This is the first movement on the top spot since February.