The tip of summer season will be bittersweet for anglers, so to make sure that we benefit from the late season, we launched the “20 Days in September” Picture Contest again in 2015. Ever since, the ninth month has been our favourite. The competition has grown yearly, as nicely, and members have despatched us numerous emails and messages about how a lot enjoyable they’ve had and this problem has brought on them to take a look at native ponds and streams they’d handed by for years. Is there a stream or pond you’ve pushed by and thought, “I’m wondering if there are fish in there?” Now’s the time to search out out.
Please notice that we’ve stored the necessary new rule we added final yr (see Rule #3) to make the competition extra fish-friendly. With excessive temperatures and low water in a lot of the nation, it’s necessary that the well being of the fish comes earlier than any picture ops.
Try the prize checklist beneath, and I believe you’re going to need to give the competition a do this yr. So kick issues off proper by getting out on the water right now!
Right here’s the way it works:
1. Make an trustworthy try and get on the water 20 instances throughout September. In fact, these don’t should be full and even half days of angling. Simply 10 casts are sufficient to depend on any given day. So steal time every time you possibly can: earlier than work, at lunchtime, after work, or . . . (cough) throughout work. (For those who’re nonetheless working from dwelling, you’ll have your regular commuting time obtainable for fishing.) On weekends, get in just a few casts round household time, youngsters’ sports activities, or yard work. The total 20 is an aspirational aim; you don’t have to finish the 20 days to win.
2. That is not nearly trout. Any species and sorts of water are eligible–from bass and pike in lakes, to stripers and bonefish in saltwater, to carp in canals. For those who can catch it on a fly, it’s sport. The one limitation is that the fish should be caught through the month of September 2022.
3. Take footage of your fish, the water, your fellow anglers, the flies you’re utilizing, or the rest. To advertise good fish dealing with, images could not present trout held out of the water. With a lot low, heat water across the nation, we need to be sure that trout are launched as rapidly as potential, with no further day out of the water for images. You’ll notice that none of final yr’s finalists had been of the grip-and-grin selection.
4. Publish your images to the Orvis Fly Fishing Facebook page or on Instagram with the hashtags #orvisflyfishing and #20sepdays. (Solely images utilizing each hashtags shall be eligible!)
On the finish of the month, we’ll undergo all of the images posted as a part of the venture and choose 10 finalists. Then we’ll let you vote for the winners! (Try all of final yr’s finalists beneath, and see all three winners here.)
Listed here are the prizes:
First Place: A Helios 3 Fly Rod of your alternative.
(Artist collab mannequin not obtainable.)
Second Place: A Mirage Fly Reel of your alternative.
We’ll additionally give 2 pairs of made-in-the-USA Orvis Nippers: One to a randomly chosen one that posts a photograph of them choosing up trash whereas fishing, and one to a randomly chosen voter on the finish of the competition.
You don’t have to finish your 20 days to be eligible to win, however we can have a Roll of Honor for individuals who do handle to finish the Challenge. So begin begin carving out extra time for fishing. Do you suppose you possibly can hit the 20 mark?
Click here for the full contest rules and conditions.
The competition is open solely to authorized residents of the USA who’re 18 or older. (We apologize to our readers in Canada and abroad; Click here for an explanation of why we have to do this.)
