The Golden Vise Award
by Jim Fortune
The Golden Vise Award is presented each year to the top Fly Tyer in the state.
Unlike other awards, this is a people's choice award. That is, people go to a
poll taking web site and pick the tyer that they think is the best. The person
making the submission needs to fill in the person's first and last name, the
person's phone number (more about this later), the city where the person lives,
the pattern that the person making the submission feels is the best one that the
fly tyer does, and where the submitter learned about The Golden Vise Award.
Those are the five questions and it takes about a minute to complete the poll.
The guy over at http://www.montanaflyfishingtips.com will tally up the results
and the winner will be contacted by phone to notify them that they have won the
award. The other purpose of the call is to set up a conference call with the
winner. The conference call will be open to the public and people can call in
and listen to the call as the interviewer finds out about the winner, patterns
they like to do best, which ones they find most difficult, how long they have
been tying flies, what is the one tool they could not live without, etc. The
conference call will take about 60 minutes. The call will be made available on
an MP3 file at the completion of the call and will be online.
The winner of the Golden Vise Award will receive a certificate letting everyone
who sees the award know that they are the First Place winner of the 2006 Montana
Golden Vise Award for Montana. There will be three 2nd place winners who will
also receive certificates. The poll will be live for two months, until June
30th. The final four tyers will be announced and another poll will be taken to
decide who of the final four is the winner. The winner will be announced on
September 1st.
People interested in The Golden Vise Awards for other states can go to http://www.goldenvise.com
for the dates of other awards that will be presented. The Wyoming awards are
next beginning on June 1st, followed by Colorado, and Idaho on August 1st.
The Golden Vise web site is nonprofit. While the annual awards are presented
using personal funds, contributions from organizations and companies in the fly
tying business are gratefully accepted at the bottom of the http://www.goldenvise
web page.
About the Author: Jim
Fortune
Source of article:
www.goarticles.com
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