FALL
VENTURE OUT 1st Place
BRADFORD PUBLISHING CO. • SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Your Next Adventure Awaits!
TOP IMAGES OF 2024
This year for the Fall 2024 edition of Venture Out, the Olean Times Herald, The Bradford Era and The Salamanca Press sought photos from readers reflecting their best days hunting in the field or fishing on the water from the past year. The response to the Hunting & Fishing Photo Contest was terrific, with dozens of submissions from individuals and families throughout the Twin Tiers region covered by the newspaper group. Editors selected what they judged to be the three best images — definitely not an easy task! — to award first-, second- and third-place prizes. The top prize is a $250 gift card, second is a $175 gift card and third is a $100 gift card from either of the two sponsors of the contest, Elk County Ammo and Arms of St. Marys and Machias Outdoors. Bradford Publishing Co. expresses thanks to the two companies for their generous support of the contest. Chad Yohe of Bradford is shown with his daughter, Riley, 8, this past Father’s Day during the Paul’s Trading Post Tom Himes Memorial Fishing Tournament on the Allegheny Reservoir. It was Riley’s first fishing tournament — she caught this 21-inch walleye, her biggest catch to date — and father and daughter took sixth place. “A day a dad will never forget!”
The winners are featured here. Meanwhile, many other images submitted to the contest are included in these pages as well. The editors thank everyone who shared their great photos from the field and on the water.
2nd Place
3rd Place
This photo is the first-place winner in the Hunting & Fishing Photo Contest.
Jan Bobseine of Cattaraugus is shown with her best buck yet in her hunting career — a beautiful 8-point taken at the age of 70 during the 2023 season using a Savage .308 youth model (perfect size for her). Jan was introduced to hunting in 1976 when she met her husband, Gary Bobseine. She loves small game hunting, open water swimming, horseback riding and her Chesapeake Bay retrievers and she has taken more than 150 deer with her bow and rifle. This photo, submitted by Jan’s daughter, Polly Bobseine of Conewango Valley, wins second place in the Hunting & Fishing Photo Contest.
In this photo submitted by Matt Silvis of Bradford, his two sons, Eddy (right), 15, and Vedder, 12, are fishing for brook trout on a small stream in the Westline area this year. Matt, who has been teaching his sons to trout fish, captioned the photo “Brotherhood — casting dreams side by side.” This photo took third place in the photo contest.