Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 I would again like to thank everyone who took the time to submit a fly to this contest and I was truly amazed with the quality of these flies. This will be a yearly event so be thinking about your flies for the 2004 contest Members have voted for the past week for their favorite flies in 5 species categories and also for the "best fly" which every fly participated in. In total 67 members voted for a total of 380 votes. The way I calculated the "Fly Tyer Of The Year" was I took all of the species winners and counted how many votes that fly received for "best fly". Now comes time for the winners. *Special Note: The moderators and I have decided to award a special prize for the "rookie of the year" and we have awarded that honor to redneckfisherman, congrats bud! Bass With a total of 20 votes Irish was the winner of the Bass Category The Fly: http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/conte...0a1b88975f5.jpg Panfish With a total of 24 votes strap11 was the winner of the Panfish Category The Fly: http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/conte...075de67c84a.jpg Saltwater With 44 votes bassturd was the winner of the Saltwater Category The Fly: http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/conte...09f0367a135.jpg Steelhead and Salmon This was the most exciting category to watch because there was a fierce battle between two flies with several lead changes and one vote in the closing hour resulted in a tie. I already had a plan if a tie would happen. I counted the amount of votes for each fly in the "best fly" category and it was still very close, but we have a winner. With a total of 23 votes and 3 votes for "best fly" TroutBum was the winner of the Steelhead and Salmon Category The Fly: http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/conte...0a0f65cd157.jpg I must mention with 23 votes and 2 votes for "best fly" was RoyChristie The Fly: http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/conte...0a214e72bff.jpg Trout With 19 votes luvinbluegills was the winner of the Trout Category The Fly: http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/conte...0a130d138d7.jpg drumroll please.............................................. With 15 votes for "Best Overall Fly" the winner of the 2003 FlyTyingForum.com Fly Tyer Of The Year Award Is Bassturd Congrats to Bassturd and all of the category winners you guys did a tremendous job and you have really shown the amazing tying skills of our members. Here is how the contest prizes will be awarded: Species Winners 1 of each fly that was submitted for their category An icon below their avatar that will show up on every post displaying the category that they won 1 copy of the Federation of Fly Fishers Fly Pattern Enclopedia View Cover 2003 Fly Tyer Of The Year 1 of each fly that was submitted for the entire contest and 2 of each for flies submitted in their category An icon below their avatar that will show up on every post displaying that Bassturd was the 2003 Fly Tyer Of The Year 1 copy of the Federation of Fly Fishers Fly Pattern Enclopedia View Cover Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Nice ties by all!!! It`s about goll dern time Will. LOL! Tight lines and good tyin!-redneck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Congrats to Bassturd and all of the category winners and good job to all OSD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lance Kekel 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Congrats to all the winners VERY Nice flies, voting wasn't easy! Thanks again to Will for all the work! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 well done to all who took part, congrats to the winners and a big round of applause to Smalliehunter, who must have spent hours on the photography alone.. well done to all of you Can't wait for next year. Roy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Thanks a lot Will For all the hard work!!!!! John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Smalliehunter thanks for all of the time that you spent on the contest and photography. and congrats to all of the winners. thanks to everyone for the votes but, I would not have voted for myself even if I could have. I realy liked troutbums fly for best overall. again thanks again to Will and everyone else for partiscipating(sp) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 I can honestly say I didn't consider this work because I had a blast being a part of it(especially tormenting everyone asking me for results ) I did not publish the amount of votes for everyone else out of respect for everyone and didn't want to embarass anyone by letting the world know they didn't get any votes. If anyone is interested in knowing how many votes they received PM me and I will let you know. I will be sorting all of the flies and will be contacted the winners for shipping details in the next few days. Thanks again to everyone P.S. Redneckfisherman, How does it feel to be the "2003 Rookie Of The Year"? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 What do you mean Smallie? Tight lines and good tyin!-redneck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steeldrifter 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Congrates to all the winners and good job on handling the contest will. Also congrates on the rookie of the year grayson your off on a good start bud! SD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Thanks Steve. Hopefully I`m off to a good enough start where soon yall will actually be happy to see me join a swap. Instead of dern, we get one of his flies. Tight lines and good tyin!-redneck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lance Kekel 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2004 For anyone who PM's Will on this one. Considering the level of competition I don't think anyone should feel bad about not getting any votes. These were some extremely well tied flies! Will, I'll be sending the pattern for my fly shortly so it can go in the library. I just can't remember exactly what I called it! memories slipping!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Lookin back, I see I did get an award in the original post. Thanks everyone! I really do appreciate it! Tight lines and good tyin!-redneck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bassinredneck 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Congrats to all winners all of the flies were great good job to all keep up the good work special congrat to will for all the hard work he put in on this project---redneck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pacres 0 Report post Posted January 28, 2004 Congrats to all of the winners. I have a better idea of what to tie next year. I'm starting tonight Cheers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
