[Mike Barrio]

[Mike Barrio]

[Kev Danby]

I had sea trout in mind when I tied this one.

Hook size 10 partridge big mouth Double
black tying thread
Tail DNA Pearl
Body silver tinsel with a palmered spun loop of CDC (2 feathers)
Wing long CDC fibres topped with black arctic fox

[Peter McCallum]

A CDC Humpy??


Tying is

Hook - 14 B170 (or any lightweight dry fly hook of your choice)
Thread - Olive
Body - LDO masterclass dubbing(or your choice)
Hackle - Grizzle
Back & Wing - A CDC feather. Tip is the wing & the rest is pulled down 'wonderwing' style, rolled then pulled over the back.


And the week after I sent these I got the latsest FF&FT mag - guess what - someone stole my idea!!!!!

Peter

[Dutchfly]

Hi Mike,

Didn't you receive my Once and Away's?

CU

Jeroen

[Mike Barrio]

Hi Mike,

Didn't you receive my Once and Away's?

CU

Jeroen

Hi Jeroen

Yes, found them today ..... I'd slipped the envelope in with some invoices

Best wishes
Mike

[Hamish Young]

Dont want to seem premature on this but I think all the results are in  So long as we've had all the entries.......

Mike, Sandy and I did complete the marking so hopefully Mr B will be posting the results shortly 

Ooooooooh it's exciting 

[Mike Livingstone]

Come on Mike, stop teasing us and post the results!

[Sandy Nelson]

You have to give to poor old man a chance.
He'll get there.................................




.....................eventually

I can tell you the end results were unbeliveably close.

Considering there were 3 months, 3 judges, 5 categories marked out of 5, it ended up with just 3 points between the top 3

Brilliant flies all round well done everyone

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Hi folks

Sorry ........ I have been drowning in work and stuff and am struggling to catch up

I'll try to do it just now

Apologies to Irvine for the lack of fly photo ( Jeroen too ) and to catman Alex for not posting his next photos from Taz yet either

And ...... what the XXX??? happened with Rob? ???

Best wishes
Mike

[Mike Barrio]

Hi folks

Based on a max of 5 points from each of the 3 markers for (1) use of materials (2) originality (3) tying skill (4) fishability (5) consistancy of your 2 flies .......... which makes a max score of 75 points per entry

The results for your January Marabou flies are as follows:

Jeroen "Dutchfly" - 57.5 pts ( wins 1st place and the Barrio Fly Line of his choice ) Well done Jeroen!
Mike Livingstone - 57 pts
Irvine "Hares Lug" - 56.5 pts
Peter "rabbitangler" - 55 pts
John "jbb" - 54 pts
Chris "turracoo" - 51.5 pts
Iain "goolager" - 49 pts
Kev Danby - 46.5 pts
Alex "catman" - 30.5 pts
Jay "jayscott" - 23 pts

The results for your February Pearl Tinsel Flies are as follows:

Kev Danby - 63 pts ( wins 1st place and the Barrio Fly Line of his choice ) Well done Kev!
John "jbb" - 59.5 pts
Peter "rabbitangler" - 58.5 pts
Irvine "Hares Lug" - 58.5 pts
Mike Livingstone - 56.5 pts
Chris "turracoo" - 53 pts
Alex "catman" - 47.5 pts
Jeroen "Dutchfly" - 40 pts
Jay "jayscott" - 38 pts

The results for your March CDC Flies are as follows:

Peter "rabbitangler" - 62 pts ( wins 1st place and the Barrio Fly Line of his choice ) Well done Peter!
Irvine "Hares Lug" - 61.5 pts
Alex "catman" - 61 pts
Mike Livingstone - 60 pts
Kev Danby - 53.5 pts
Jeroen "Dutchfly" - 50 pts
Chris "turracoo" - 48.5 pts
John "jbb" - 44.5 pts

And adding up the results ..... I can't believe they're so close:

Irvine "Hares Lug" - 176.5 pts ( wins 1st place and a boat for 2 anglers for the day at Haddo ) Well done Irvine!
Peter "rabbitangler" - 175.5 pts
Mike Livingstone - 173.5 pts (my bad maths, sorry )

Well done everybody ........ I hope you have enjoyed taking part

The flies have been amazing throughout the competition!

Best wishes
Mike Barrio

[Hamish Young]

Well done everyone who entered, some belting flies in there Couple of ideas I might even "borrow" myself 

Bearing in mind there were 3 very different judges it's remarkable that 1st-3rd place are split by a mere 2 points over 3 rounds

Excellent stuff 

And ...... what the XXX??? happened with Rob? ???

Now that is a good question..... hmmmmmmm 

[Irvine Ross]

Well you could knock me down with a feather! and that's what I though Peter and Mike would do. When I saw the photos of their flies I was sure one of them would win
There was some great patterns and lovely tying on display by everyone who entered and now we have an on-line resource of fly patterns for anyone to copy.

A big thank you to Mike, Hamish and Sandy for giving their time and making it all possible

Jings

Irvine

[Sandy Nelson]

I thoroughly enjoyed it as usual

I can only apologise it took so long to get the marking done, but unforseen trips for both Hamish and myself made things more tricky, still we got there in the end

Great to see people thinking about the materials and what they are good for, that was the idea.
Some great ideas appeared and some cracking flies.Well done to all Again

I would add that a lot of people lost marks for consistancy between the two flies.
So for next year, you can bear that in mind 
 

Sandy

[Peter McCallum]

Close run or what eh? Congratulations to Irvine, well done sir!! Next year 

Peter

[Dutchfly]

Well done, Irvine! A deserved win 

Next year...

CU

Jeroen

[Barry Robertson]

Any plans for a tying challenge this year seing as the dark nights are drawing in now?

[Hamish Young]

Yup - need to sit down with Mr B and Sandy to sort things out, but it will happen again this winter 

[Sandy Nelson]

Hmmmm 

I wonder