I may not be able to fit NY into my travel plans for this year. Otherwise, I'd love to go.
Use whatever format works best for your area.

If you have a scale, you can use a weight format like the biggest 10 (or 15, or 20, or whatever # you decide). We sometimes make it even more challenging by specifying that only certain species count and that you can only have "X" amount of any one species. For example...Biggest 10 fish but only carp, gar and buffalo count, and of those you can only turn in 4 of any species. That way you have to be able to get all three to do well.

If you don't have a scale, you can use the total numbers format. Again you can make it species specific, such as carp only, Carp and gar only, etc.

PM me if my rambling doesn't make sense and I'll try to 'splain it better.

Have fun!