Fly Product...The Fly Trout's "Game of Trouts" Shirt

Game of Trouts is not a fantasy world. It's a way of life.

-Sizes Sm-XL

-Gray

-Made in the USA

-$24.00

Boom...Morgan

The Fly Trout's Browntown Thanksgivaway

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's "In Case of Emergers" Tee

IN CASE OF EMERGERS. -$24

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's New 'Time's Fun' Shirt

No better way to spend your time than with some flies. Check it over at The Fly Trout's T-Shirt Shop.

-Printed on Premium American Apparel shirt

-Royal Blue with Navy ink

-$24

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's 'Fishmas Sweater'

Via The Fly Trout:

The classic ugly Christmas sweater style on a t-shirt with some fish!! -$24

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's "Troutset" Hat

Now this, this is legit. Joe just keeps pumping out the genius from his awesome workshop. Love it. The Troutset Hat...

Our popular Troutset design on a sweet snap back hat. -$24

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's 'Spooky Trout' Shirt

Sometimes trout can be a little spooky. Beware. -$20

Boom...Morgan

And The Winners Are...

Sorry this took so long to get up, I received about 275 entries (individual photos) into this year's 2014 Photo Contest. I spent all day yesterday judging photos and almost called a draw in multiple categories...the submissions were phenomenal, some of the best I've seen. The gear we're giving away this year is pretty ridiculous, seriously, its well over $1,000!

If you need a little refresher, heres how the photo contest worked...

Rules:

-Photos were submitted to us for judging

-Max of 4 pictures per person (one per category).

-The categories were:

• Best Picture
• Biggest Carp
• Prettiest Carp
• Ugliest Carp

-1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners were be selected for each category.

-Submissions were due by August 24th, 2014 by 8am.

So who won and what did they win you win you ask? Drumroll please...

Best Picture -

1st Place -  Ben Eastman won a custom Vedavoo Tight Lines Sling. Ben, you pick the color, as with all Vedavoo products, its made 100% in the USA and made to order! 1 pair of Dizm Eco Eyewear shades -$225 Value

2nd Place - Courtney New won a Handcrafted Wetfly Net (medium) and 1 pair of Dizm Eco Eyewear shades. -$155 Value

3rd Place - Woodson Boughton a Wetfly Farmer John Hat and a Cheeky Fly Fishing beverage koozie and reel pouch. -$50 Value

Biggest Carp -

1st Place - Matt Simms won a mixed bag of 12wt Apparel's newest, freshly-launched gear and colors and set of Goat Head Gear Sole Spikes - $150 Value

2nd Place - Hunter Watson won a Handcrafted Wetfly Net (medium) and set of Goat Head Gear Sole Spikes. -$85 Value

3rd Place -  Seth Green won a BadAxe Design Carp Hat and set of Goat Head Gear Sole Spikes. -$50 Value

Prettiest Carp -

1st Place - Seth Green won a custom, made-to-order, Nature Boy Designs "Con Mas" 550 Lanyard, a dozen Feather-Craft carp flies, and a Feather-Craft "Meat Locker" Fly Box. -$110 Value

2nd Place - Matus Sobolic won a dozen CarpPro carp flies, mix bag of stickers, and a Cheeky Fly Fishing beverage koozie and reel pouch. -$70 Value

3rd Place - Brandon Morrison won BadAxe Design Patch, The Fly Trout shirt and a Loon Outdoors hat. -$50 Value

Ugliest Carp -

1st Place - Caleb Corona won an assorted bag of Bozeman Fly Goods' brand-new Bug Collars, a bag full of Allen Fly Fishing carp hooks, and a BadAxe Design Carp Hat. -$110 Value.

2nd Place - Larry Dostal won a WV Angler Sun Mask (Buff) and a Feather-Craft "Meat Locker" Fly Box. -$80 Value

3rd Place - Chad Shaner won BadAxe Design Patch, The Fly Trout shirt and a Loon Outdoors hat. -$50 Value

Congratulations to all of our winners! Be sure to send us an email at tltffcarpweek@gmail.com letting us know your mailing address and we will have things shipped out ASAP. Please take time to thank the companies that sponsored this year's Carp Week.

Same time, same place next year, the week after 'Shark Week'...Carp Week 2015 is due to be enormous. This year we peaked out at numbers that were completely unfathomable. From here on the blog to our social media pages...well over 20,000 unique views...whoa. You guys are awesome, thank you so much for supporting and following TLTFF!

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's 'Match the Hatch' T-Shirt + Giveaway

Boom...Morgan

Daily Deal...The Fly Trout's "LUCKYSHIRT" Deal + Giveaway

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's Colorado Flag Shirt

The newest addition to The Fly Trout's T-Shirt Shop...love it!

$20.00

Boom...Morgan

Daily Double Deal...The Fly Trout's "Fly Friday"

Bang the image to goto The Fly Trout's site.

What's better than Black Friday? How about Fly Friday! Get 25% off your order this Friday. Load your cart with some fly gear for yourself or gifts for others. Then at checkout use the code FLYFRIDAY to get the discount. Save this email for Friday to be sure you get in on this deal. Stay Fly.


Boom...Morgan

And The Winner Is...

Thank you all for an amazing Carp Week. Honestly, y'all crushed our numbers bringing in the most unique views we've ever had in one week let alone one month! We had hundreds of submissions to the Carp Week photo contest and gave away a record number of gear from our amazing sponsors. If you didn't already have the opportunity to do so, please head on over to our sponsors pages and check out what they have to offer, check them out on their social media outlets as well, let the know you heard about them through TLTFF's Carp Week, I'm sure they'll all appreciate it.

For those of you who entered, wow, what beautiful fish, you guys are killing it around the world! Its great to see this unique type of fly fishing take off and be appreciated by so many.

We hope that you learned a thing or two this week, maybe added some new gear or flies to your collection whether it be through one of our contests or through supporting our great sponsors. We really cannot thank you enough for the support! We got some amazing feedback throughout the week that made us realize how great our readers are and why we keep this blog going, thank you.

All that said, lets get on to announcing the winners of this year's Carp Week Photo Contest! With hundreds of submissions received, it was a bit overwhelming going through the photos but over the last two nights we've been going through them over and over and we've finally selected the best of the best.

There were four categories: Best Picture, Biggest Carp, Prettiest Carp, and Ugliest Carp. All pictures submitted were placed in their respective categories based on our perception of them. After cups and cups of coffee...here are your winners as well as runner ups and below the pictures are their prizes.

Best Picture- 1st Place

Jeremy Green

• A pair of black Dizm Eyewear Dempseys (polarized)
• A copy of The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing for Carp from CarpPro
• Choice of ONE pair of gloves and ONE SUNwt Mask from 12wt
• Cheeky Fly Fishing Stash Reel case
• "Carp Fly Fishing" print from BadAxe Design
• BadAxe Design trucker hat
• BadAxe Design "Carp Fly Fishing" shirt

Best Picture- Runner Up

Dave Kuntzelman

• The Fly Trout "Don't Get Skunked, Get Fly" shirt
• Fishpond USA hat
• Dragonfly Fishing Can-yard
• Gift Certificate to J&M Flies

Biggest Carp- 1st Place

John Bartlett

• A pair of black Dizm Eyewear Dempseys (polarized)
• Choice of ONE pair of gloves and ONE SUNwt Mask from 12wt
• "Meat Locker" fly box from Feather-Craft Fly Fishing
• BadAxe Design "Carp Fly Fishing" shirt from Kevin Morlock at Indigo Guide Service
• Cheeky Fly Fishing Stash reel case

Biggest Carp- Runner Up

Anthony Macchiarola

• The Fly Trout "Fly Fishing Love" shirt
• Redington hat
• Set of Goat Head Gear Sole Spikes

Prettiest Carp- 1st Place

David Litten

• A pair of black Dizm Eyewear Dempseys (polarized)
• Choice of ONE pair of gloves and ONE SUNwt Mask from 12wt
• BadAxe Design "Carp Fly Fishing" shirt from Kevin Morlock at Indigo Guide Service
• Cheeky Fly Fishing koozie
• Free Fly Apparel Sun Mask from WVAngler.com

Prettiest Carp- Runner Up

Josh Gutierrez

• Redington shirt
• Loon Outdoors Classic Logo hat
• Set of Goat Head Gear Sole Spikes

Ugliest Carp- 1st Place

Gabriel Bizeau-Régis

• A pair of black Dizm Eyewear Dempseys (polarized)
• Choice of ONE pair of gloves and ONE SUNwt Mask from 12wt
• Nature Bay Designs custom "Carp Week" NBD 225 Lanyard and Hat(ch) Patch
• Cheeky Fly Fishing koozie
• Hat from Fishpond USA

Ugliest Carp- Runner Up

Miles Christmas

• Fishpond USA shirt
• Loon Outdoors Classic Logo hat
• Cheeky Fly Fishing Stash reel case

If you are a winner, you have one week from today (August 25th, 2013) to respond to us by sending your name and address to tightlinedtalesofaflyfisherman@gmail.com with the subject "I WON".

Please take a moment and pat yourself on the back, job well done. I have to say, we have some amazing photographers and fisherman follow us, it really gives us the motivation to keep TLTFF going.

Thank you all again, stay posted for more upcoming giveaways and don't forget to gear yourself up for your next trip with stuff from our sponsors!

Boom...The TLTFF Crew

Carp Week 2013

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Some of you may have been following us for awhile and seen the promotions we've been doing for this year's Carp Week. Last year was a huge hit, thanks to you, so this year we thought we'd not only bring Carp Week back, but make it twice as big. This week has a lot of greatness packed into it, thanks to our awesome contributors and friends. Just to give you a breakdown of how the week will pan out, we wanted to give you a play-by-play as to what we have in store.

Everyday at 7am, like we've always done, 3-4 posts will go live. One is guaranteed to be a sick carp-related fishing video (Daily Reel). The rest will be either interviews with industry experts, reviews of carp-related gear, knowledge from the geniuses of the carp world, and info on how you can win free gear! Every day we will be giving away a dozen flies from some of the best carp fly tiers we could get, flies that are tried and true and can help you put a nice bend in your 6, 7, or 8wts.

The best part about Carp Week is not only that you can exponentially expand your knowledge of fly fishing for carp, but you can win awesome prizes from fly lines to t-shirts, to original artwork, to hats and much much more! Just to give you an overview as well as a shoutout to our amazing Carp Week sponsors, here's who's on board this year for gear...

• 12wt.
• BadAxe Design
• CarpPro
• Cheeky Fly Fishing
• Chesapeake Fly Co.
• Dizm Eyewear
• Feather-Craft
• Fishpond USA
• The Fly Fishing Consultant
• The Fly Trout
• Goat Head Gear
• H&H Outfitters
• Indigo Guide Service
• J&M Flies
• Loon Outdoors
• Nature Boy Designs
• Redington
• Risen Fly
• WVAngler.com

And here are our featured fly tiers...

• Chesapeake Fly Co.
• Feather-Craft
• Indigo Guide Service's Kevin Morlock
• Main Stream Fly Co.
• Mario Garza Flies
• Roughfisher
• Waters Edge Fly Co.

We have an unbelievable amount of gear to giveaway this week so keep your eyes on the blog every day to stay in the know as to how you can win! To start the week off right, we have a huge fly giveaway brought to you by Feather-Craft Fly Fishing (see Daily Dozen Fly Giveaway - Day 1 post above) but we also wanted to get everybody in the know about our Photo Contest. This year we will be holding a photo contest just like last year but this year with a few changes...

Rules:

-Submit all photos to TLTFFCarpWeek@gmail.com with the subject line "Carp Week Photo Contest". 

-Max of 4 pictures per person (one per category).

-Picture must be in PNG or JPEG format.

-The categories will be as follows:

• Biggest Carp
• Best Picture
• Prettiest Carp
• Ugliest Carp

-One winner and one runner up will be selected for each category and will win some sick gear from the companies listed above.

-Submissions are due by August 17th, 2013 (last day of Carp Week) before midnight EST.

-Winners will be announced on (Sunday) August 18th through a blog post.

-Any questions can be directed to tightlinedtalesofaflyfisherman@gmail.com

-Contest begins now...GO!

I hope y'all are as syked as we are for a super-fun week. Make sure you spread the word by using the hashtag #CarpWeek and 'like' and follow @TLTFF on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for exclusive content! 

For your chance to randomly win some gear, use the hashtag #CarpWeek on all posts, we will be selecting a random winner at some point that has used the hashtag during Carp Week.

During Carp Week, please send all contest entries, questions, or any correspondence to TLTFFcarpweek@gmail.com.

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's American Trout and Red, White, and Bluegill Shirts

Love these new ones from The Fly Trout...so ideal for the holiday! 

"This dude is proud to be an American" and "You can't get any more fly than a patriotic bluegill."

Only $20.00 each.

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout's 'Fly Tying Club' Tee

Check out The Fly Trout's newest release...The 'Fly Tying Club' tee, available for only $19.00 over at The Fly Trout right now!

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product...The Fly Trout Colorado Longsleeve Tee

Via The Fly Trout:

Stay fly and order yourself a TFT Colorado Trout Tee now in long sleeve. Offered in sizes Small to XXL, you can go wrong...it will keep you warm and you'll look darn good doing it. Only $26.00 too!

Boom...Morgan

Boom...Morgan

Daily Deal...The Fly Trout's 'Too Cool for School' Shirt

Via The Fly Trout:

"Some fish swim alone."

Normally $19, now only $13

Boom...Morgan

The Fly Trout's Merry Troutmas Giveaway

Tis the season for more giveaways. Via The Fly Trout...

On December 25th we will be giving away a great little prize pack which will include 1 Don’t Get Skunked t-shirt, 1 The Fly Trout Coloradocap, 1 The Fly Trout Colorado sticker, and a handful of flies tied by yours truly.

Now you are probably wondering how do I enter to win?!?!?!? It’s easy, just fill out the form and you are entered!

Boom...Morgan

Fly Product: The Fly Trout's Troutstache Shirt

Via The Fly Trout:

"When a mustache just won't do."

Coming in at only $19.00, this shirt is a must-have, especially during Movember! It comes in sizes Small through XL. Check it over at The Fly Trout and stay fly!

Boom...Morgan