For One Of These Incredible Fish: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the For One Of These Incredible Fish vote is and who runs it

For One Of These Incredible Fish is the public vote attached to the Show Us Your Best Catch contest, a fishing-photo competition that KWWK presents on its Quick Country website together with the retailer Scheels. The station invites anyone who likes fish or follows fishing to look over the submitted entries and back a favorite, which makes the ballot a classic audience-choice promotion rather than a judged award.

KWWK is the organizer and the host at the same time. The station operates quickcountry.com, and the ballot lives on that domain and not on any outside voting service, so the voting page, the station's news and lifestyle content and the station's other promotions all sit under one roof. For a supporter that means the ballot is only a click away from the site's regular traffic, and for an angler it means the vote rides on the reach of a Minnesota radio brand.

The ballot page itself is short. It opens with the invitation to check out all the entries in the Show Us Your Best Catch contest brought to you by Scheels, and then presents the fish choices directly. Scheels supplies the reward on the page, a $100 prize, which ties the contest to a retailer many anglers already shop with.

Facts at a glance

The dated history: which editions ran and when the window falls

The ballot has a longer history than most station promotions. Confirmed edition years are 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, a run that shows the vote returning across multiple cycles on the same Quick Country address. Nothing is held for 2019, 2020 or 2021, so those three years simply cannot be described either way, and no claim about them belongs on this page.

Within the live cycle the one hard date is the close. The ballot states that a supporter can vote once per day through noon on April 28, which puts the whole voting window in April for the current edition. The opening day is a different matter, because the page prints no start date at all, and neither the nomination period nor any round structure before the vote is described anywhere on the ballot.

That gap matters more for this ballot than for most, because the program's unpublished facts are unusually concentrated. Dates for the nomination round and the voting round, the list of categories the entries compete in, and the eligibility rules beyond the daily limit have all been left off the page by the station; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

What the history does support is recurrence. With six confirmed years spread from 2018 to 2026, and a continuous stretch of editions from 2022 onward, the pattern points to an annual fixture on the Quick Country calendar. The next expected run falls in 2027, though the station has not announced one ahead of the current window.

How a supporter votes for a fish entry today

The mechanic is deliberately simple, and that simplicity is worth spelling out because it shapes how support actually accumulates. A supporter opens the ballot on quickcountry.com, looks through the fish entries submitted to the Show Us Your Best Catch contest, selects one and confirms the submission. No login step is described on the page, so nothing stands between a visitor and a completed ballot except the choice itself.

The daily limit is the part that turns a single click into a habit. The page allows each supporter to vote once per day through noon on April 28, which means an entry's final total is built less from any one big push and more from how many people come back, day after day, for the length of the window. A supporter who sets a daily reminder and votes at the same time each morning will out-contribute a supporter who votes once and forgets, and the same holds for every friend an angler recruits.

The noon cutoff deserves its own mention because it is the kind of detail that loses votes. A supporter who plans to vote on the final day but waits until the afternoon has already missed the window, since the page closes the daily option at noon on April 28 rather than at midnight.

Behind the vote sits a reward: the winning entry earns a $100 prize from Scheels, the retailer presenting the contest. That is the only figure the page carries, so anglers and supporters alike know exactly what the daily return is aiming at.

Strengthening support for an entry in this ballot

Because the ballot rewards the daily return, the most effective support strategy for a Show Us Your Best Catch entry is one built around repetition. Ask each person who backs your fish to vote every day through noon on April 28, not just once, and give them the direct link to the ballot so the trip takes seconds. A short daily reminder in a group chat outperforms a single well-crafted post that everyone reads once.

The station has not published a rules page alongside this ballot, so its position on organized outside help is unknown, and an angler weighing paid support should treat that silence as a reason to check the live ballot for any stated policy before spending anything. The neutral overview at get more votes online walks through the options that work for small station-run ballots of this kind, where a modest field and a daily limit make consistency the deciding factor.

One more practical note: the entry itself does the persuading. A striking fish photo gives supporters a reason to keep coming back and to forward the link to their own circles, which is how a station ballot with a modest audience produces a four-figure vote total for a single entry.

How this ballot sits beside its Minnesota neighbours

Minnesota's best-of ballot scene is crowded, and the For One Of These Incredible Fish vote occupies a distinct corner of it. Where most of the state's ballots ask readers to pick a town's favorite business across dozens of categories, this one narrows the whole exercise to a single subject, fish, and runs it as the public face of a photo contest rather than a citywide readers-choice survey.

The nearest neighbours in kind are the station- and paper-run ballots. Best of the Midwest and Minnesota's Best both cover broad territory with category lists, while Best of the Best Brainerd Lakes Area, CommunityVotes Duluth, CommunityVotes Rochester and Best of the Best (Duluth News Tribune) anchor their votes to specific cities and regions. Each of those ballots has a different publisher behind it and its own calendar, so a vote earned on one of them counts for nothing on the others.

What makes the fish ballot different is the pairing of a niche subject with a statewide radio audience. An angler entered here is not competing against every plumber and diner in a city, only against the other catches the station received, and the reward from Scheels keeps the field focused on people who already fish. For a business or an individual deciding where to invest effort, that narrower field with a daily-vote mechanic is a genuinely different proposition from the multi-category ballots around it.