Catch of the Week — official rules
No purchase necessary. This is a judged photo-and-story contest, not a random drawing. Buying a TrophyPic, subscribing to email, allowing paid advertising, following, liking, sharing or tagging does not improve your chances.
Sponsor and entry period
Sponsor: Lunker CO LLC, operating TrophyPic by Lunker. Contact: skipper@mytrophypic.com. Entries open October 8, 2026, when this public entry form is activated. There are four weekly entry periods, ending at the Denver-time deadlines below. Entries received after a cutoff fall into the next period, if one remains. No entries after the final cutoff.
- Week 1: opening through October 11, 2026, at 11:59:59 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.
- Week 2: October 12 through October 18, 2026, at 11:59:59 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.
- Week 3: October 19 through October 25, 2026, at 11:59:59 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.
- Week 4: October 26 through November 1, 2026, at 11:59:59 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. Denver changes from daylight to standard time on November 1.
Who can enter
You must be at least 18, the legal age of majority where you live, and a resident of one of the 48 contiguous U.S. states or the District of Columbia. Alaska, Hawaii and territories are excluded. Employees and immediate household members of the sponsor are excluded. Void where prohibited. Adults submit; do not submit a child's contact information.
How to enter
Use the entry form at Catch of the Week. Submit your name, email, state, one original fishing photo up to 20 MB, a 30–1500-character account of the catch, and required eligibility, rights, photo-and-story feature and rules confirmations. JPEG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC photos are welcome. Other files accepted by the uploader must still be safe, usable photos to qualify. No stolen photos, materially fabricated catches or generated entrant photographs.
One eligible entry per person per weekly period. Repeat submissions do not give extra chances: the earliest eligible submission is retained, and later duplicates are excluded during review. Use one email consistently; do not use extra emails to evade limits. A submission receipt means received, not eligible, selected or approved for publication. Internal QA entries are excluded. No email receipt is promised; do not resubmit solely because none arrives.
Judging
One eligible winner is chosen per period by TrophyPic using: specific, engaging account of the catch 60%; memorable fishing-photo moment 30%; suitability for a clear printed keepsake 10%. A large fish alone does not guarantee selection. Likes, shares, followers, purchases and optional permissions are not judging factors. Ties are resolved by story score, then photo score, then a documented second merit review—not chance. One prize per person during the pilot. If no eligible entry can be selected for a period, its prize is not awarded.
Prize and winner contact
Each weekly prize is one personalized 5×7-inch TrophyPic Shelf Stand with a solid oak base and standard shipping to an eligible U.S. address, included. Approximate retail value $39.99 each; four prizes, total $159.96. No cash alternative. The stand uses the accepted winner's photo, subject to internal print-quality and rights review. Delivery timing will be communicated after production; no arrival date is guaranteed.
Potential winners are contacted at their submitted email by skipper@mytrophypic.com after judging. Reply within 72 hours; otherwise or if eligibility/rights cannot be verified, the next ranked eligible entrant may be contacted. Shipping information is requested only from a potential winner. We will never ask you to pay to claim the prize. Any legally applicable personal prize taxes are the winner's responsibility; sponsor pays production and standard shipping. Public announcement follows acceptance and release verification.
Your photo and permissions
You keep ownership. You must own the photo/story or have the photographer's permission, every identifiable adult's permission, and be parent/legal guardian of every identifiable minor shown with authority for the proposed use. Documented releases may be required before featuring any submission or using an opted-in advertisement. Do not include children's full names, addresses or precise fishing locations.
By submitting and affirming the required photo-and-story feature permission, you grant Lunker CO LLC/TrophyPic a nonexclusive 12-month license from submission to feature your photo and truthful story excerpts on TrophyPic's website, organic Facebook/Instagram and email, whether or not you win. Ordinary cropping/resizing only: no invented catch, altered likeness, resale or unrelated-brand use. A first name and state may accompany a feature after confirmation. Submission does not guarantee publication or a prize; featuring an entry does not mean it has won.
This submission-feature permission applies to entries that affirm the new Photo and story feature permission v3. Earlier entries retain the permissions given when they were submitted; this revision does not expand those permissions retroactively or change their eligibility, judging or prize terms.
Paid-ad permission is a separate optional 12-month license from submission for TrophyPic Meta paid ads, with the same limits. Declining does not affect eligibility or judging. Marketing email signup is separately optional and initially unchecked. You can unsubscribe at any time without canceling an entry. No texts or calls are authorized by this form.
Entry privacy
Shopify Forms stores entry information and the uploaded original for sponsor's eligibility review, judging, winner contact and permitted photo/story features. Marketing choices are tracked separately. A licensed photo and truthful story excerpts may be featured whether or not the entrant wins; entry does not guarantee publication. The sponsor retains originals not selected for permitted reuse through 90 days after the final result, subject to a dispute or required legal records; assets selected for permitted reuse may be retained through the applicable license period. Minimal consent, eligibility and award audit records may be retained when necessary. Requests and privacy questions: skipper@mytrophypic.com. See the store privacy policy.
Platform and technical conditions
Facebook and Instagram do not sponsor, endorse or administer this contest. To the extent permitted by law, participants release those platforms from claims arising from participation. Information is supplied to Lunker CO LLC/TrophyPic, not to Facebook or Instagram for entry administration.
Incomplete, unsafe, late or ineligible submissions may be excluded. If a material technical or integrity failure occurs, sponsor may pause entries and publish a clear correction without treating a failed upload as received. Existing received records will be preserved and reconciled. These rules do not waive rights that cannot legally be waived.
Enter your catch · Rules version: catch-launch-v3-2026-10-12.