Playa on the river. Photo by John Le Coq

G&G and Fishpond are teaming up to help some pups in need and give you some cool gear.

My Josie

John Le Coq, founder of Fishpond, and I have a fair bit in common. We each have a profound love for fly fishing and public land, we are both photographers and we both have a new puppy. The same week I was bringing Josie, my little potcake, home from South Andros, John was falling in love with a dog on the beach in Mexico. Playa made the trip home with him to become part of the Fishpond family.

This just seemed like too much to ignore so we dreamed up a plan to get the G&G community into the fun! We combined three of the things we love and created the G&G / Fishpond Fishing Dog Photo Contest. It’s not just for fun. In addition to receiving some sweet Fishpond dog gear, the winner will have a $250 donation made in their name to the dog rescue of their choice.

Here’s all you have to do.

Send us a photo of an awesome fishing dog before midnight, May 14th. We will select a winner based of photographic merit and canine adorableness and share the winner on G&G. It’s that simple. Fishpond will send you a dog bed, food/water bowl and leash, and together we will send $250 to your favorite dog rescue.

It’s not a requirement that you share your entries on social media, but we encourage it. If you do, please use the tags @ginkandgasoline @fishpondusa #g&gfishingdogphotocontest.

Take those dogs fishing and show us why they deserve to be famous!

Contest rules

•The contest is open to everyone.

•The photo must be your original work.

•Limit three submissions per person, that’s three photos so a triptych counts as three.

•All submissions must be made by email to hookups@ginkandgasoline.com

•Photos should be jpeg format.

•Please use the subject line, “Dog Photo Contest” for your email

•File names should be your full name plus a # 01-03. So my file name, for example, would be louiscahill_01.jpg , louiscahill_02.jpg , louiscahill_03.jpg

•All submissions must be in by midnight EST on May 14, 2017.

•Winners will be announced on Gink and Gasoline

•All prizes will be shipped directly from our sponsors.

•Photographers retain all rights to their work, We only ask that we can use the photos on G&G and on social media.