Where
University of Pittsburgh - Bradford CampusBlaisdell Hall
300 Campus Drive
Bradford, PA 16701
Driving Directions
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
6:30-8:30 AM ................................Breakfast
MORNING SESSION
7:30-8:30 AM ................................... A Fisherman
8:30-9:30 AM ................................... B Fisherman
9:30-10:30 AM ................................ A Fisherman
10:30-11:30 AM .............................. B Fisherman
11:30-1:00 PM ................................ Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION
1:00-2:00 PM ................................... A Fisherman
2:00-3:00 PM ................................... B Fisherman
3:00-4:00 PM ................................... A Fisherman
4:00-5:00 PM ................................... B Fisherman
EVENING EVENTS
4:30 PM ............................................ Cocktails
5:30 PM ............................................ Auctions
6:00 PM ............................................ Awards
6:30 PM ............................................ Banquet
THE RULES:
- Competition will include team or individual entries. There will be a Team Champion and an individual champion with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards for both tournaments.
- Any conventional fly pattern of any dry, wet, nymph, streamer, terrestrial.
- Contestants may choose the pattern used after examining their beats, and may bring one extra fly, rod, reel, and line. CONTESTENT MAY USE FLY OF CHOICE FOR EACH BEAT.
- The flies will be registered by the controller prior to the start of the competition.
- Repair of flies may only be done with the use of glue or other adhesive. Any re-tying of the fly with threat or fly tying materials will be prohibited. Broken hooks may be honed back to usable sharpness with any sharpening tool.
- No lead-headed jibs or modified spinning lure type flies will be approved.
Hooked on Headwaters First Annual Fly Fishing Challenge Registration
Headwaters is hosting the first annual Hooked on Headwaters Fly Fishing Challenge
Friday, May 29, 2015
@ the University of Pittsburgh Bradford campus on the West Branch of the Tunungwant Stream
Featured speaker will be Joe Humphreys
Team Registration - $1000
Individual Registration - $250
Registration and check-in for the event will take place in Blaisdell Hall at the University of Pitt at Bradford
Please join us for a unique day of fishing, education, and fun.
Team Regration Individual Regration
OR
Click here to view/download a printable brochure if you wish to register via mail
FISHING PROCEDURES:
- Rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Fish Commission governing the waters to be fished will be strictly observed.
- Entering water will only be permitted next to bank and to ankle high depth.
- All trout will be counted in the scoring All scoring ends for the contestant on a beat when the contestant's fly pattern becomes irretrievably lost.
- The contestants can continue to fish the beat where the fly was lost, but no points will be awarded for fish caught. Anglers can resume fishing on the next assigned beat with a new fly.
- Contestants on the same beat may switch back and forth on their adjacent beats.
- Beats will be randomly assigned prior to the event.
- Fishing times will be one hour on, one hour off.
- Controllers may assist in the landing of any fish to be scored in the contest, with the permission of the fisherman who has the fish on the line. Controllers are permitted to enter the water to net a fish.
- If the contestant's fishing fly becomes caught in the brush or snags, it may be recovered and reattached to the leader and may continue fishing; however, if any unsafe practice is used to retrieve a fly, the contestant can be disqualified by the controller.
- Nets will be used to land fish to avoid harm to the fish. Barbless hooks must be used. Any fish killed will be a deduction of 10 points.
SCORING:
Trout 4" = 4 point
Trout 5" = 5 points
Trout 6" = 6 points
Trout 7" = 7 points
Trout 8" = 8 points
Trout 9" = 9 points
Trout 10" = 10 points
Trout 11" = 11 points
Trout 12" = 12 points
Trout over 12" - add 1 point for every inch over 12
Any fish other than trout = 1 point
Total team points determine Team Championsip
Team Regration Individual Regration
OR
Click here to view/download a printable brochure if you wish to register via mail