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Match Rules
1. The match will start and finish on the blow of a whistle or the call of the match Secretary.
2. The Match venue will be pegged out prior to the start of the match.
3.
Each competitor upon drawing their
number shall proceed to the corresponding peg. This will be considered as their fishing position until the end of the match.
4. Every competitor must not fish over the line of halfway between each adjacent peg.
The exception being on a river when the ruling is one yard above the peg to one yard before the next peg down river.
5. A competitor must not cause annoyance or seek to interfere with any other competitor’s swim during the match.
6. No competitor may move or exchange their peg once the draw has taken place, without the Match Secretary’s
permission.
7. No competitor may buy or draw more than one peg.
8.
Keepnets must not be less than 8
feet long by 18 inches diameter. Carp must be kept only in carp mesh nets of suitable size for the fish caught.
All
competitors must take every care of their fish caught, so that they may be returned alive, after the weighing.
9. A competitor may only fish with one rod and line at any one time, but they may have others set up, provided they are
not baited and in the water. Only one hook may be used on each fishing line.
10*.
Any bait may
be used with the exception of live or dead fish, spinning lures and nuts of any description.
11*.
No competitor
may have live or dead fish in their possession prior to the start of the match.
12.
No competitor
may ground bait or loose feed their swim, or disturb the water in any way other than to wet groundbait, place a keepnet or
bankstick or plumb the depth prior to the start of the match.
13. A competitor must strike, play and land
their fish.
14. Any competitor who abandons their peg, having decided to cease taking part in the match, but who
decides to continue to fish, must do so off the match length.
15. All competitors must cease fishing on the
final signal from the Match Secretary. Should they be playing a fish, an extra fifteen minutes will be permitted to that angler.
16*. All fish are eligible for the weighing–in, with the exception of Minnows, Sticklebacks and
Pike. All live fish must be safely returned to the water after the weighing-in takes place.
17.
The scales person’s decision
on the weighing-in is final. It is up to the Angler to protest, if so required at the time of the weighing-in and not after
it.
18. Any competitor weighing-in may ask for a fish to be weighed separately if they think it may be of
specimen size.
19. No competitor will be weighed in if litter is found at their peg.
20. A competitor may object to their peg prior to the start of the match, via the Match Secretary. If
just cause is found they may redraw.
21.
All competitors must carry an unhooking mat and use it when unhooking large fish on the bank
* These Rules may
only partially apply for the Pike Match.
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