Hi, my friend and I both fished the final at grafham last week. He caught two fish and I caught three fish but his were of a slightly heavier weight. Can anyone tell me who would of been placed higher in the competition? Not sure how the pointing system fully works as this was my first Troutmasters final. What a great day and superb place!!

did any ov oz 2 catch off both bank and boat or were uz both on the bank or the boat at the same time??#

I'll try an explain the scoring system as best I can.

* The comp is fished in 2 parts (bank and boat).

* The placings in each session are determined by weight - so 2 fish for 7lbs would beat 3 fish for 6lbs 8oz for example.

* Person with heaviest bag in session scores 1 point. 2nd bag scores 2 points, 3rd bag scores 3 point etc etc.

* After both sessions are completed, you add your 2 scores together and the person with the least points win.

This way the most consistent angler SHOULD win as you need to catch in both sessions to stand any chance of winning - which is why I found it hard to believe that people who blanked in the morning session still went on and pulled stockies out one after another knowing full well that they couldn't win. IMO they would have been better off looking for 1 BIG fish to put them in with a shout of the biggets fish prize.

I caught 9 in the morning session and 1 from the bank so I should have placed higher than the person who caught 23 in the morning but blanked in the afternoon.

Hope that helps answer your question.

FJ

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thank you for clearing that up for me. and i totally agree with what you are saying about people not catching in the morning on the bank and still killing as many as they could on the boat in the afternoon, it seems a waste to me because you can guarentee that at least 30percent of all fish caught probably went in the bin. do you think that they should have had a different kill polisy? when i fished the troutmasters fish off at my local the policy there was you had a two fish ticket but you decided which fished you killed so say you caught two straight away you were risking it if you put one of the first two fish back and go for that larger one. but then you have to look at how they would police it!

what happen if two anglers have the same points.

.....Pass.

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If a man speaks in the woods and no woman is there to hear him............is he still wrong????

2 anglers wont have the same points as they would be seperated by their bag weight
this happened in last years final and the person with the heaviest overall bag weight would be deemed the winner or given the higher placing than the person with the same number of points hope this helps

So it go's by the weight and not the number of fish?