the korum challenge

Neneman Nick · Jan 14, 2007

Those of you that read total coarse fishing magazine,will be aware of the "korum challenge".There are a total of 8 species of fish to catch,and badges are awarded depending on the size of fish landed,weighed,photographed etc...In total there are 16 badges to collect...8xspecies badges and 8xspecimen badges.
On another thread,wendy has mentioned that she would like to win all the badges and i expressed an intrest as well.I also laid down a little non competetive challenge to wendy and opened it up to other fishing magic regulers as well.
Chavender has put his name into the frame and i was wondering if anyone else would be interested???
The person who obviously gains the most or all the badges before an agreed end date will deemed the winner and the runners up will donate ?20 each to the winners chosen charity.
When there is enough people wanting to have a go,we can sort out the finer details,start date,regular updates,pics etc...
So come on then folks,who`s up for a bit of non too competetive fun and raising a bit of money for charity???

The names so far.....
Wendy
Nick (me)
Chavender

Mithrandir · Jan 14, 2007

As I do not read the magazines often, what is the fish list and weights??

Wendy Perry 2 · Jan 14, 2007

Barbel 5lb+ Barbel 8LB+
Bream 3lb 8oz + Bream 6lb+
Carp 10lb+ Carp 20lb+
Chub 3lb 8oz+ Chub 5lb+
Perch 1lb 4oz+ Perch 2lb 8oz+

Pike 1lb 4oz+ Pike 16lb+

Roach 1lb+ Roach 1lb 12oz+
Tench 4lb+ Tench 6lb+

the one's on the right are to get a specimen badge... I wonder which i got

Mithrandir · Jan 14, 2007

cheers Wendy

3 of those are on my not caught yet list so I think I will give it a miss till I have the skillset needed.

chavender · Jan 14, 2007

i know which are my Achilles eels.
specimen:
bream
pike
tench ?
carp ?

standard:
bream
tench ?

my club has plenty of decent waters holding fish in all the sizes but catching them too order is the real trick,i know plenty of other places with good sized fish in them and with verious fish ins and matches there should'nt be a problem except i've got to catch them

chavender · Jan 14, 2007

keeping track of who has achieved badges isn't a problem as i've got all the TCF issues so far (i only buy CF,cat,tcf mag's)
and i could always e-mail or pm gareth purnell to see if i should miss a month.

Richard Farrow · Jan 14, 2007

Would really struggle with the Barbel, only water locally is the Wensum. Otherwise the rest are achievable at my local lakes 1.5 miles away. At the specimen level as well, if I had the time.

Richard Farrow · Jan 14, 2007

Sorry, Chub would be a problem also.

chavender · Jan 14, 2007

well if people want i'll see about a barbel day or overnighter on the trent where theres a possibility of 5-6lb chub & a pond on site with bream & pike in it not too far from jnc 24 m1 and comfortable pegs to fish from

Neil Maidment · Jan 14, 2007

Did someone say "a barbel day or overnighter on the Trent"??

Yes please!

If I can count back 30 odd years will those fish qualify for a badge??

chavender · Jan 15, 2007

theres only a eight week count back.(mores the pity)

Gav Barbus · Jan 15, 2007

chub and barbel nighter sounds good to me chavender as well .

Bryan Baron 2 · Jan 15, 2007

I would join in for a bit of fun. It would open up a bit of diversity in my fishing.

The list is a little short though maybe we could come up with our own.

Neneman Nick · Jan 15, 2007

Not a bad idea bryan,perhaps we could add rudd,catfish,eel as well as fishing for what the korum challenge has stated???
This thread is here for thoughts and ideas,as well as getting a list of interested parties,so come on folks.

Bryan Baron 2 · Jan 15, 2007

Grayling and Dace also.

It was just a idea as we are all wide spread with diffrent species at our disposal.

Neneman Nick · Jan 16, 2007

Any more takers,ideas,thoughts???
Come on folks,don`t be shy!!!

paul williams 2 · Jan 16, 2007

Anything that adds a bit of an edge to your fishing is a good thing, so those who fancy it go for it!

Personally i think the roach weights are a touch high though.......i think it should be 1lb and 11/2lb.......just to give people a chance.

chavender · Jan 16, 2007

i've had a idea,how about a bonus wildcard type thing where if one of your applications is accepted for a gold award (you get a korum cap) you can (if you wish) then cross a extra fish of your list & if you should win the main prize cross two fish off

but if someone has collected an equal number of badges without the wildcards by the allotted date,then they would be deemed the winner.

so if two people had 11 bades each but one used a wildcard in place of a badge then the other person wins by right.

this would be a possible help (still got to catch a qualifying fish to get the gold award which won't be easy) to those who might struggle to get a particular species like say a big bream.but it would be upto the ingervidual if they want to use a wildcaed or not

i'd like too see it stick to the 16 badge fish,to keep it simple or we'd end up chasing too mant different fish and not catching enough of the badged ones which was the origanal premis.

Wendy Perry 2 · Jan 24, 2007

i'm off to get my 3rd badge this weekend cmon nick you got some fishing to do!

pcpaulh · Jan 24, 2007

Im up for the idea, not that I'll get many of them but it's worth a try!

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