“Daddy & Daughter’s 1st Drum” by Shenna Bogetti of Dover was the winner of the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife’s 2016 Delaware Fishing Photo Contest. Mrs. Bogetti took the photo of her husband Brian Bogetti and daughter Mackenzie Bogetti during a day of fishing in the Delaware Bay.
The other contest winners are:
•Second place: “Reflections,” by Christine Fletcher of Milton, for her photo of family member Ernie Fletcher at Reynolds Pond.
•Third place: “Catching the Breeze,” by Amy Baldwin of Newark, for her photo of her daughter Ella surf fishing at Cape Henlopen State Park.
•Honorable mention: “The Boys,” by Katresa Foster of Milford, for her photo of friend Bill Grove and family member Mike Foster at Bowers Beach.
Submitted photo/DNREC
•Honorable mention: “Finlee’s First Catch,” by Katresa Foster of Milford, for her photo of family members Finlee and Mike Foster at the Mispillion Riverwalk.
Three DNREC judges — Division of Fish & Wildlife Director David Saveikis, Fisheries Biologist Bruce Cole and Freda Barrett, amateur photographer — selected the top five entries. The contest specified that photographs must have been taken in Delaware and depict fishing with family or friends.
Judges were looking for photos that best portrayed this year’s contest theme, “Fishing with Family or Friends,” which carried a lot of photographic consideration from the judges in selecting winning entries.
“The photography contest is a great chance for anglers to showcase and share their fishing adventures with other anglers,” said Fish & Wildlife Director Saveikis. “The theme and these photographs help reinforce and capture the fun of a shared outdoor fishing experience, and we hope they will inspire others to enjoy the great sport of fishing and to enter next year’s photography contest to capture the fishing experience.”
The winning photographs can be viewed on the Division of Fish & Wildlife’s website.