OperationBass.com wants your favorite fishing story
Like most anglers, you probably have a few great fishing stories. Treasured memories of fishing with family and friends are what make fishing, well, fishing. In honor of Father’s Day and National Take a Child Fishing Day, we want to hear your favorite fishing story about you and your dad or you and the special young angler in your life. If your story is chosen, it will be published on OperationBass.com.
Your favorite story may revolve around the time spent fishing with your dad and the excitement of landing your first fish. Or, your story may be more recent – like the time you taught your child how to cast and he or she set the hook in your pant leg on their first cast.
See your story on the Web
Submissions selected by our panel of judges will be published in the Bass Fishing E-Zine section of OperationBass.com beginning the week of June 19. Stories will be judged on creativity, adherence to the theme and grammar.
Participation is easy
Your submission must be an original, previously unpublished fishing story. E-mail your submission to [email protected] by Friday, June 16, 2000. For consideration, your submission must include the following information at the top of your story:
· Name
· Date of birth
· Mailing address
· Day telephone number
· E-mail address
· Entrants between 13 and 18 years of age also must include the name and e-mail address of their parent or legal guardian.
If you have an appropriate photo to accompany your story, attach a .jpg or .gif file of the photo with your submission.
Pay tribute to your father or the exceptional young angler you fish with by sharing your favorite fishing story today.
Official Rules
1. ELIGIBILITY: Open to legal U.S. residents who are 13 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees of Operation Bass, Inc., Jacobs Managment Company, Jacobs Interactive, their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, and members of the immediate families and persons living in the same household of such employees are not eligible. Void where prohibited.
2. TO ENTER: In 500 words or less, describe your favorite memory of fishing with your father or a child. E-mail your submission to [email protected] by June 16, 2000. At the top of you submission, provide your name, date of birth, mailing address, e-mail address and day telephone number. Entrants between 13 and 18 years of age must include the name and e-mail address of their parent/legal guardian.
3. JUDGING: Judging will be conducted by a panel of selected employees of Operation Bass, Inc. Entries will be judged equally on the basis of 1) creativity, 2) adherence to theme, and 3) grammar.
4. GENERAL: Winners will be notified by e-mail on or about June 19, 2000. Winning submissions will be published on OperationBass.com beginning on or about June 19, 2000. Entries are accepted on the condition that they are the entrant’s own original work, are the sole property of the entrant, and have not been accepted for publication elsewhere. By participating, entrants [a] agree to these rules and decisions of sponsor and judges which shall be final in all respects relating to this contest; [b] indemnify and hold harmless sponsor, its respective officers, directors, affiliates, subsidiaries or agencies from any liability, injuries, losses, damages, rights, claims and actions of any arising out of their participation and acceptance and use of prize including, without limitation, personal injury, and claims based on publicity rights, copyright, trademark, defamation or invasion of privacy; [c] grant the sponsor all rights of ownership, reproduction and use of entries for any purpose whatsoever without compensation (unless prohibited by law). Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, incomplete, stolen, or misdirected entries; computer or electronic malfunction caused by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this contest, or by any human error which may occur in the processing of entries. Nor correspondence about entries will be entered into nor will entries be acknowledged or returned. No prize transfer. No prize substitution except by sponsor due to unavailability. One prize per person.
5. WINNERS LIST: for a list of prize winners, send an e-mail to [email protected] with WINNERS LIST in the subject line and your e-mail address in the main text area.
Sponsor: Operation Bass, Inc., 901 North Third Street, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55401.