Big Fish Contest

2025 CONTEST PRIZES AND SPONSORS

Monthly winners will each receive prizes from the following businesses.

GRAND PRIZES (randomly selected at the end of the contest):

1. Guided half-day smallmouth bass fly-fishing float trip for 2 in 2026 with Keystone Predator Outfitters and Todd Deluccia, the 2014 Musky Fly-Fishing World Champion.

2. Guided half-day trout fishing float trip for 2 in 2026 on the Clarion River with Brown Trout Addiction and Don Cameroni.

Cooksburg Café – Cook Forest
Double Diamond Deer Ranch – Cook Forest
Driftwood Saloon & Grill – Driftwood
Elk Country Visitor Center – Benezette
Elk Life – Benezette
Farmer’s Inn – Cook Forest
Hepler’s Country Store – Brockport
Ireland’s Bait Shop of Elk County – Weedville
Lakeview Store – Sinnemahoning
Mudbeard’s Bike’s & Boards – Ridgway
Pale Whale Canoe Fleet – Cook Forest

2025 RULES

Fish MUST BE caught within the 3 counties of the PA Great Outdoors region (Elk, Forest, and Cameron) to be eligible.

If you are submitting photos of people, you must have their permission.  Clicking submit results in giving approval to Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau to use your photos in promoting the region.

Contest submissions will be accepted April 1st through June 30th, 2025.  One winner per month.

Photos will be uploaded to our website for voting each month.  The photo with the most likes at the end of the voting period will win the prizes for that month.  If you are a winner for the monthly prizes, you could also be selected as the grand prize winner (but not guaranteed).  However, you are not eligible to win the monthly prizes more than once per year.  Two photos will be selected at the end of the contest as the grand prize winners.  Winners, both monthly and grand prize, will be contacted directly and announced on Facebook.

If you have any questions, email info@VisitPAGO.com.

There’s no shortage of great places to cast a line in the Pennsylvania Great Outdoors region. Everyone is invited to enter photos of their catch from Elk, Forest, and Cameron Counties, by using the submission form below.

 

Submit Your Fish Photo

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2024 RULES

Fish MUST BE caught within the 3 counties of the PA Great Outdoors region (Elk, Forest, and Cameron) to be eligible.

If you are submitting photos of people, you must have their permission.  Clicking submit results in giving approval to Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau to use your photos in promoting the region.

Contest submissions will be accepted April 1st through June 30th, 2024.  One winner per month.

Photos will be uploaded to our website for voting each month.  The photo with the most likes at the end of the voting period will win the prizes for that month.  If you are a winner for the monthly prizes, you could also be selected as the grand prize winner (but not guaranteed).  However, you are not eligible to win the monthly prizes more than once per year.  One photo will be selected at the end of the contest as the grand prize winner.  Winners, both monthly and grand prize, will be contacted directly and announced on Facebook.

If you have any questions, email info@VisitPAGO.com.

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