This beauty weighed in at 13 lbs and was caught on a Paul's Fishing Kites boat long line by Terry Goodfellow and Gary Matthews.

Terry writes, "We were fishing out of Kawa Kawa Beach early on Wednesday morning.

Two sets of the longline produced a limit catch of mainly pan sized snapper and the big snapper in the pic above. We were home and cleaned up by lunchtime!

Regards Terry Goodfellow

Unfortunately it wasn't, and I think Grants comments will be helpful to those who would like to take a cover shot or win any of the thousands of dollars up for grabs in our new photo contest.

According to Grant a good cover shot has:

• The camera held the other way round in the portrait position
• A fill in flash used to remove shadows from the anglers face and the fish
• No shadows falling on the subject from the cameraman or objects behind the cameraman
• Good composition with angler and fish posed naturally as the central focus
• An area of sky at the top for the magazine name
• An uncluttered background
• Maximum resolution settings on quality digital cameras or good quality prints or slides from conventional cameras

The bullet points in italics were what prevented this photo from earning Terry $200.00. In explaining bullet point 4 Grant thought the way the left hand holds the fish looked a little unnatural.

My advice is that when everything is perfect, as with a clean, blood and sand free fish straight from the water, stunning background and perfect light as in the pic above, talk to the cameraman about what is required and take plenty of shots.