[Irvine Ross]

Jings! Crivens! Help ma Bob!:shock:
I canna believe it.
Well done everyone else. I realy like Derek's shrimp and all the others are very good.
The pressure is on now. Gulp

Irvine
 

[the water buoys]

Well done Irvine nice flies,well done to everyone else.
            I think me and Andrew had our Donkey Jackets on, over dressed
            But learning all the time and enjoying taken part.
           

                        Henry Andrew thewaterbouys :  

[Hamish Young]

It was illuminating judging the salmon fly section    I have one or two small observations which I'd like to make, these are in no way a criticism of any one tyer as the tying was all to a very good standard  

1. Remember the principal knot employed by salmon fishers for attaching a conventional salmon fly to a cast/leader remains the double turle/turl knot. On many of the flies there simply wasn't the space to tie one which cost marks from me - I'm harsh, I know  

2. A salmon fly should not only be a work of art but it should also be 'hardy'. By that I mean the wing or materials simply should not seperate from the body at all. One or two entrants again lost points as the wings came loose with the gentlest of tugs, those wings would come out in normal use on the 1st cast.

I'm looking forward to the next round  :z9

[Dutchfly]

Nice flies, well done, everybody!

Just curious, how many entries did you receive?

Cheers,

Jeroen

[the water buoys]

Hi Hamish
                        As i have never fly fished for salmon,what is a turle /turl knot. :  Learning something new all the time.


                              Henry Andrew thewaterbouys  :

[Mike Barrio]

Hi Henry

Try here for the knot http://www.fishandfly.com/articles/20060908_4

[Mike Barrio]

We had eight entries for the salmon flies Jeroen ........... Don't worry about the quantity, look at the quality  

Cheers
Mike

[Sandy Nelson]

Absolutley

the quality is really high, i can also tell you there is very little in it as regards overall points. Given the flies are marked out of 120 most of the flies had between 1 and 5 marks between them.
So its all to play for.

Some really good trout entries so far too.

Sandy

[Sandy Nelson]

All entries are in.

Should be marked soon

The final score will come a wee bit after. Again though lovely flies submitted by everyone

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Hi folks

Yes, all the entries are in and we will try to get the results sorted out for you as soon as possible.

A few folk have mentioned that they would like to get a "better look" at the flies .......... so I have tried to get some photos done for you today.

I am going to post the photos in the fly tying section, with a thread for each person's flies. Although some of you have sent me some tying details for the flies, I think I'll leave you to add these details below your flies yourselves, which will hopefully produce some Q&A for you  

There are some wonderful flies here ......... Well done  

Best wishes
Mike Barrio

[jbb]

had a good     at all the flys
well done all :

[Derek 365]

A MASSIVE thank you for Mike,Sandy & Hamish for giving up there own time to judge/mark/post results and give away prizes , also well done everyone who entered and finally i'd hate to be a fish   now.

[Mike Barrio]

Great to see so many of you posting your tying details against the photos today!

Great stuff  
Mike

[Mike Barrio]

 RESULTS ... RESULTS ... RESULTS ... RESULTS  
Thank you all once again for some excellent flies in the final round  

( ROUND THREE RESULTS )
(5th) Peter McCallum "rabbitangler
(4th) Derek Howie "derek 365"
(3rd) Jeroen Glen "Dutchfly"
(2nd) Irvine Ross "Hares Lug"
(1st) Chris McAllister "Turra"
Well done Chris, as the winner of round three you have won yourself a day's fishing on Haddo .........  


DON'T FORGET THAT ........... all those who entered were awarded points for their flies in each of the three rounds and all these points count towards your final scores.
I will post the competition winners names later on this evening  

(1st place = ??? ) and wins a Barrio Otter 4 pce 5wt Fly Rod
(2nd place = ??? ) and wins a Barrio Mallard Fly Line and Barrio Heron Furled Leader
(3rd place = ??? ) and wins a Barrio Mallard Fly Line

Best wishes
Mike Barrio

[Mike Barrio]

FINAL RESULTS ... FINAL RESULTS ... FINAL RESULTS  

ROUND ONE WINNER = Peter McCallum "rabbitangler"
Winning a day's fishing at Haddo Trout Fishery

ROUND TWO WINNER = Irvine Ross "Hares Lug"
Winning a day's fishing at Haddo Trout Fishery

ROUND THREE WINNER = Chris McAllister "Turra"
Winning a day's fishing at Haddo Trout Fishery

FINAL RESULTS ... FINAL RESULTS ... FINAL RESULTS  

COMPETITION FIRST PLACE WINNER = Irvine Ross "Hares Lug" with 283 points
Winning a Barrio Otter 5wt 4pce Fly Rod

COMPETITION SECOND PLACE WINNER = Peter McCallum "rabbitangler" with 277 points
Winning a Barrio Mallard Fly Line and Barrio Heron Furled Leader

COMPETITION THIRD PLACE WINNER = Jeroen Glen "Dutchfly" with 274 points
Winning a Barrio Mallard Fly Line

FOLLOWED BY:
Derek Howie "derek 365" with 271 points
Chris McAllister "Turra" with 266 points
John Brown "jbb" with 255 points
Henry Lockhart "Henry & Andrew" with 232 points
Andrew Lockhart "Henry & Andrew" with 225 points
Jay Scott "jayscott" with 67 points ( from 1st round only )

Well done everybody  

And a big thanks to Sandy and Hamish for their help with marking  

Best wishes
Mike Barrio

PS: Can the winners please contact me via a PM or email to sort out their prizes  

[Peter McCallum]

Congratulations Irvine , a close competition guys well done to all!!


Next year though

[the water buoys]

Well done everyone good fun.

     Very well done to young Andrew and Jay for having ago.


             Henry from the waterbouys.      :



            ps  Look forward to the auction      

[Mike Barrio]

Yes ......... it was really great to see the youngsters taking part. Well done Andrew and Jay  

It was a pity that young Andrew's Hares Ear let him down a bit in round three ......
..... because up until then he was beating you Henry  :

Best wishes
Mike Barrio

[Irvine Ross]

Well Jings , Crivens and Help ma Bob again!:shock:

When I saw the photo of Peter's lovely wee spider I was sure he would win.

Well done everybody else  Especially young Jay and Andrew. The scores show the competition was close. so with another year's practice, the tables could be turned upside down.

Many, many thanks to Mike for running the competition and thanks also to Hamish and Sandy for giving their time for judging. I'm sure all the competitors appreciate their efforts.

And  to all of you who did not enter this time, if Mike does somthing similar next year - then  go on give it a go. It's good fun and you learn a lot.  :

Jings again

Irvine

[Sandy Nelson]

Everyone who entered deserves a well done, all the flies were good in their own ways.
What i found was that by marking them the way we did, the marks were much closer. And provided a more level playing field.
Also having 3 opinions changed things dramatically.
I thoroughly enjoyed doing it, but most credit goes to mr B who put up the prizes.

Now all we have to do is work out how to auction the flies and who should benefit, IDEAS please

Sandy

[Hamish Young]

Aye - it's been an enjoyable experience  Very interesting seeing different ideas and methods from all who entered (Jay - you give up it was down to the wire at the end :

Mike, Sandy and I did discuss selling the flies off on auction here and donating the proceeds to the Wild Trout Trust. However, I had another idea  :idea:  this morning after a particularly strong coffee  :

This site is certainly the 'home' of all things River Don and is unquestionably the finest online information source for the river (IMHO at least   ) so might it be an idea to auction off the flies to support the Don hatchery :

[the water buoys]

Hi Mike
                 I have seen Andrew tie a lot better,his G-- Fly thePinkie,Blood worm. This fly has caught Plenty of your fish and on a lot of other fishiers.
  Salmon fly.   I thought he did great being his first salmon fly.
  Hairs ear. Would have been better had he took his time,but will always catch fish. So i hope he beats me next year.I hope this will encourage other young anglers ,and adults to take part next time.    
                                                                                    :
 
     Buying some flies from shops are there to catch anglers.
     Tying your own your tying to catch fish.
   
      Henry from thewaterbouys          :

[the water buoys]

Hi Hamish
                    I dont care how strong your coffee was this morning,you cant say you will donate to the wild trout trust. Then at the end of com petion donate to some other cause : .If you want to donate to the don hatchery why not do so at the next fund raising event. :
   
                         Henry from the waterbouys

                                      :  

[Hamish Young]

Henry,
Errrr - aye  
If you read the thread a bit more closely you will observe that Sandy suggested in his last post that we might consider who/where might benefit from the proceeds of the auction  :arrow: whilst I did rather think it had been previously agreed that we would donate the proceeds of this auction to the WTT what I did in my last post was follow Sandys lead and make what I considered a constructive alternate to the WTT by suggesting the Don hatchery as it's a more 'local' - a local auction for local trout, I like it  
It's not what I say that matters but what we as a forum decide - I'm happy to see any organisation that helps angling and/or fish benefit from this or the next event    
I'm looking forward to my next strong coffee  

[sightbob]

well done everybody, some super flies there and well done to mike and the judges the prizes are great.
keep up the good work.
cheers
brian