Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 It is now time to begin voting for the 2003 Fly Tyer Of The Year Award! Voting will end Jan. 27 at 8:00 PM EST For our first contest we have 19 tyers who have submitted a total of 51 differnet flies and we fell somewhat short of the goal of 50 tyers. I must say that although we did not reach the goal, the quality of each fly makes up for the lack of numbers. I must say that I am not a professional photographer but I spent countless hours photographing the flies and I did my very best to capture the quality of each one. Some were easier than others. Many of the smaller patterns I was able to capture the smallest detail while the larger flies required that I moved back from the fly to get the entire fly in the picture. I did not play favorties and treated each submissions equally and if you feel I did your fly an injustice, I apologize, because I did my best with each fly submitted. This contest is set up so that those who have entered a fly cannot vote for themselves and must vote for a different submissions. Let's keep the contest honest and I will be logging information that will be review at the end of the contest just to make sure somebody did not cheat to boost their numbers. With the lack of submissions it was necessary that we combine some of the species so for anyone who submitted for multipe species you might find two flies in the same category. There is a total of 5 species categories and each member may vote for each category once. When you have voted for a particular category it will not allow you to vote in that category again. Please take your time and vote for each category. There is also a category "Best Overall Fly" where you may pick one pattern out of the 51 submitted that in your opinion is the best fly submitted for the contest. I will not tell anyone how to judge these patterns, just vote for whatever qualities that you feel make the best flies. Good Luck to everyone who is participating and I truly appreciate every fly that was received! Here is the link to begin voting: http://www.flytyingforum.com/?act=contest_vote[/b] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 dern man, you weren`t kiddin, those are some great flies!! Mine are bad compared to the others. I`m done votin. Good luck to everyone! Wish I could win, but like they say, there`s always next year. Tight lines and good tyin!-redneck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 Very good job by all. Thank you smallie for keeping us honest on the voting too! John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 You got anything where we can see the number of votes right now? -redneck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 No that is top secret information Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 WHAT?!?!?!?!?! Top secrect? Sounds like a bunch of BS to me. LOL. J/p. Tight lines and good tyin!-redneck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 Thanks Will for all the time and hard work you've put into this contest. You are a fine and admirable young man. A credit to you family and your species. Your wife should worship the ground you walk on and offer herself to you whenever you wish. You are a god among men! Note: This was NOT a blatant attempt to get Smallies vote for my fly. I would never stoop to pandering for some silly contest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 I got to say them were some of the best looking flies I have seen in a long time I would have liked to had more than one vote in each category there were some sweet looking flies that I didn't want to pass up without at least a honorable mention. Great job all OSD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 Awesome collection of flies. I had planned to enter my stonefly, tied 3 of those, but when I looked for the mailing address in the thread, I noticed that the contest was to be anonymous. After posting the recipe on the site, I disqualified myself. (DUH) Good Luck to all the participants. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SDHflyfisher 0 Report post Posted January 21, 2004 link isn't working for me and i tried up top too Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pujic 0 Report post Posted January 21, 2004 Awesome Will, just awesome! Thank you for everything! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lance Kekel 0 Report post Posted January 21, 2004 All I can say is AWESOME flies! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SDHflyfisher 0 Report post Posted January 21, 2004 well to be more specific it brings me to a new page but there is nothing there Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 SDHflyfisher, I am making a post in the "site help and suggestions" forum just to keep this thread from being flooded wit "tech" talk. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 21, 2004 TB, Flattery will get you nowhere, but I'll make sure I tell my wife what you said Shoe, I wish you would have submitted those flies it wasn't a big deal that the pattern remained a secret I just didn't want people saying "I'm gonna tie this fly" because then everyone would know what fly that person submitted. It truly is a great set of flies and it goes to show the great amount of talent that is here, and so far the voting shows that it's gonna be a close one! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
