Concept Presentation · Prepared for the Sydenham Sportsmen's Association

Derby Live.
The Salmon Spectacular, in every angler's pocket.

A companion app built exclusively for the Owen Sound Salmon Spectacular — live leaderboard, catch logging, and an interactive derby boundary map. Built locally, hosted locally, branded entirely as yours. The fish stay unpredictable. Everything else gets easier.

10Derby days
1000sof anglers
$175K+in prizes
35+years of tradition
Fish Fact Chinook are also called "king salmon" — and around here, the crown is decided in August.

Why an app — and why now

The derby is legendary. The angler experience can be too.

Anglers on the water right now are juggling paper rules, word-of-mouth standings, and generic fishing apps that couldn't find Owen Sound with both hands and a depth finder. Derby Live puts the whole event in one place — and gives the SSA real-time engagement data no clipboard ever could.

Live Leaderboard

Standings update the moment a fish hits the scales. Anglers watch themselves climb, get bumped, and head straight back out for revenge. Engagement becomes a loop, not a lineup.

Nothing motivates a second trip out like being 0.04 lb from first.

Boundary Map

The legal derby zone drawn on an interactive Georgian Bay chart. One tap answers "am I in bounds?" before the lines go in — fewer disputes, fewer disqualifications.

"I was pretty sure I was legal" retires as an official defence.

Catch Logging

Weight, species, time, and photo captured in seconds at weigh-in. Every entry builds a season-over-season dataset on catch trends the SSA can use for conservation reporting.

The fish stories stay at the dock. The data comes home clean.

Rules On Hand

The full derby rulebook, searchable, in-app, and cached for offline use. No more "I didn't know" at the scales.

Your Brand, Front and Centre

SSA logo, colours, sponsors, and prize board throughout. This is the Spectacular's app — not a third-party platform borrowing your event.

Sponsor Real Estate

Rotating sponsor placements inside the leaderboard and map screens — a new, measurable asset to offer your sponsor partners.

Prime waterfront advertising, no zoning permit required.

Interactive demo

Don't take our word for it. Tap around.

Everything below is a working concept with sample data. Any resemblance between our demo anglers and actual persons is purely fintentional. The real build connects to your official weigh station.

Live standings · Chinook Division
Did you know? Salmon find their home river by smell — they can detect one drop of scent in water the size of ten Olympic pools.
Demo data refreshes itself — just like the standings will during derby week.
Official scale weight — the one that got away doesn't count.
✔ Catch logged. Watch the leaderboard — you're on it. Your secret spot remains a secret.
Transparency note: the boundary shown is drawn from published derby descriptions and is approximate. Final version requires official SSA boundary coordinates and on-water verification so anglers can trust it absolutely — this is where we need your local knowledge. The map will never reveal anyone's secret spot. We know better.

What we'd need from the SSA

Straight talk: the challenges, and how we solve them together.

Boundary accuracy

GPS-verified boundary coordinates from your committee, tested on the water before launch. An app anglers can't trust in-bounds is worse than no app.

Official weigh-in flow

Leaderboard entries must come from your weigh station, not self-reporting, to keep standings dispute-proof. We build a simple staff entry screen for the scales. Fish are honest; the leaderboard should be too.

Spotty coverage offshore

Cell signal drops on open water. The app caches the boundary map and rules for full offline use — connectivity only matters at weigh-in. The fish don't get bars out there either.

The investment

One number. Everything included.

Built and hosted in Grey County by Sincerity — the same local, hands-on model behind working business apps already running for area companies. No platforms, no per-user fees, no surprises at the scales.

Derby Live — Full Season

$5,000 CAD

One-time. Covers the full 2026 derby.

  • Complete app: live leaderboard, weigh-station entry screen, boundary map, rules, catch photos
  • SSA branding throughout — your logo, colours, and sponsors
  • Derby Week Priority Support: 7 days a week, 6am–midnight live response within 1 hour, overnight monitoring
  • Sponsor placement system — a new asset you can sell
  • Post-derby catch-trend report for conservation and planning
  • Hosting through year-end included
Optional: True 24/7 On-Call
Live response around the clock for all 10 derby days — for committees that don't sleep either.
+ $1,500
Optional: Keep It Running Year-Round
Off-season hosting, updates, and a refreshed build each derby season.
$75 / month