A couple weeks ago, we launched the Spring Orvis Days Contest, which asks folks to post their best images of original flies on Instagram, along with the hashtags #orvisflytyingcontest and #regal_vise. There were well over 200 entries, and the competition was fierce! Our crack team of in-house judges could not agree on just three finalists, so we are presenting you with 10 to choose from–and even getting it down to 10 wasn’t easy, believe me.
Take a close look at the 10 photos in the widget below (click on each image to see a larger version), and then choose your threefavorites. The tiers are competing for some great prizes:
First Prize: A Regal Revolution Vise of Your Choice
Second Prize: An Orvis Premium Fly-Tying Kit
Third Prize: A Fly-Tying Work Center
We’ll also give a set of three pairs of Premium Orvis Scissors to one randomly selected voter.
Important Note: To be eligible to win the scissors, you MUST leave a comment about the photos in the comments section below. (That’s the only way we’ll know who you are, since the poll widget doesn’t collect data on voters.)
Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, April 29th, and we will announce the winners on Wednesday, May 1st.
So choose our three winners, hit the “vote” button, and then leave a comment below!
Don’t forget to leave your comment for a chance to win!
Ant, Stonefly nymph and baitfish….sweet.
Loving ofishaltackles! Great job to all.
I like the Gurgler. A must have fly for Snook in the back country.
Gotta go for the funky flies, because a picture with that massive bass imitation would be hilarious.
the bass is interesting
Very creative! Fish on!!
Ready on the Truckee.
Great flies nice jobs! Good luck for everyone!
All of the flies are beautiful, creative, and super fishy. Very tough to choose!
More complementary to my Southern style.⁰
All of these are beautifully tied!! Can’t wait to see who the winners are.
I need to make an informed decision. I think Orvis should send me on a fishing trip to test each one.
Include me too!
I have scissor envy.
All very impressive, some very clever designers
Way to go all
Can’t be sure, but there’s some Japanese Kebari-style action going on. I dig it!
Nice snapshots!
This should be a monthly contest.
Good luck winners
That Klinkhammer is impressive!
All great looking flies
It’s a tossup between flyenvy and marshnmtnflyco…congrats to the finalists.
Really like the orange comment
I’m needing some new scissors
Go follow us@islandboyzfishing on instagram
All good looking flies
No poppers?
Great looking flies would like to fish them.
Nice work by all! As always I look to others for inspiration when tying.
Great contest!
Nice flies!
Loved them all but went with the ones that scream eat me klinkhammer is an amazing little piece
I can see why you had such a hard time narrowing down the flies to just a few finalists. I would definitely use all of these flies.
I suggest two categories next time. Some of these are SO creative…for flies we would never actually use! 🙂 Give a prize for the best entry in an “Anything Goes” category or something like that. So fun!
Very creative.
I love the Crab pattern, and could do with another pair of scissors.
Great looking patterns
Tim is a tying fool!
Foam stimie for the win!
I can’t decide which one is the best. They all look good.
Tough choices, great looking flies. Tried to pick according to what I thought would fish best.
Those are some great patterns!
Beautiful work.
This is a great contest! I’m gonna have to enter it next year! Thanks for a fun distraction from the normal and a great showcase of talent!
very talented people
Interesting stuff. No mops?
A few are useful, most seem pointless. When I was younger I tied some overly complicated flies, but I’m mostly old school: easy to tie, sturdy, catches fish. Tom Lentz, an Orvis tyer for four decades, taught me to tie. His Finger Mullet and Sand Flea are a couple of my favorites of his saltwater designs. You should bring back his Finger Mullet, it’s great in salt and fresh warmwater.
I love the gurgler foe Snook and small Tarpon
Very nice.
I like trout flies
They are all great. Hard to pick just 3.
Congrats to the finalists!
Very hard decision….I think the fish immitation pattern are out of this world. Best of luck to all….
Very hard Decision….All flies are top notch…Best of luck to all who entered
Great flies, would love to fish them!
tying flies is about mimicry, and that fish is just spot on… be interested to see how it run in the water though…
I voted for the ones I’d use and that’s high praise because i tie my own !
All awesome flies but the last one was the best.
Three beautiful trout flies. (Mostly a trout fisherman). Will try to tie some.
hard choice … however I went with what I thought was best … all were good
Some very talented tiers out there!
Excellent field of choices, very difficult. Thanks!
Great flies.tough to choose
As someone said above, having more categories would be awesome! Then have winners in each category!
Great flies.tough to choose
All very lovely. So hard to choose.
Good stuff and some of these are getting my creative juices flowing!
Very nice. Tuff to pick just 3.
I voted.
Nice set of flies!!
Best of luck!
Great work! You’re all winners!
Very impressive. Wish I had that skill
This is so much fun. Good luck to all.
Great looking flies. Good luck to all contestants
I chose what caught my eye, love the bright colors!
All flies nicely done!
All nice ties. Good luck!
Great patterns.
Agreed that this should be a regular contest. Awesome flies.
A few seem practical, many of them are just art
Very cool looking flies… hard decision to make
Someday……..someday…..I PRAY to have enough skill to tie flies like these folks do
Awesome flyes great talent
humbling….. Beautiful work and very creative patterns.
Really? We can only vote for 3?????
You always have to appreciate a tier that can perfectly add hackle to a fly.
All of these are very well done and creative. Good luck to all!
Nice ties!
PS:I run with scissors!
All entries look like they will catch fish!
Very nice selection.
Cool flies.
so much talent!
True craftmanship….
The Orvis page showing the to-be-voted-for flies does not work using Safari/Chrome browsers. Since my son asks me to vote for him, what’s a father to do?
Sorry. I screwed up the software. Fixed now.
Thumbs up on the stonefly
Klinhammer for the win!
bunker hollowfly…. wow !
Stone fly vers nice
These are all dope. Good luck to everyone.
They are all really great! Amazing what people create.
Amazing ties from all the finalists.
Good luck to all. Great flies tyed by all the finalists.
Cannot vote! Doesn’t work, says wrong date on poll being closed… says April 9th.
Sorry. Fixed! You can vote now.
Yeah, sorry. We had a software snafu. Fixed now.
Some of the best fly-tying I have ever seen.
Great idea for a tying contest! Every fly looks so good! fentonflies has to win the “takes the longest to tie” category
Awesome! Thanks for the contest, hope to win, but love seeing so much talent in the contest! It will be a close one for sure!
All these flies are well tied!
Love them all!
Some awesome work. Hoping to build up to that skill level one day.
Nice flies!!!
I went for innovation like the floating shrimp, two toned parachute and the Peter Framton crab!
Can’t wait to tie my own!
These are so cool
Some very creative some very detailed. My favorite is by rivrat60
Good luck to all the contestants 🙂 those scissors would be a nice surprise since I just started fly tying
Good Luck
Good luck to all the contestants 🙂 those flies look sweet
Good Luck
Good Luck!
cool
Nice flies
Nice diversity in the entries.
Good Luck
Great contest. Very creative flies.
Wow. They are all very good flies. Sure is a tough decision.
All really cool flies
fentonflies crappie is not only art, it’s functional art! they can catch big predator fish
Some great tyers in the mix!! Nicely done tyers!
Love that fentonflies one. Real creative
Snip snip
Man love the crab fly from Destination Flies
Would love to see a redfish crash on that floating crab pattern
All those are fantastic ties.
That floating crab is gonna get rocked!!!
I love that big bluegill fly.
That’s some quality flies. The creativity in some is awesome!
That crab from destination flies just looks beyond fishy. Clear tarpon snack
The long narrow baitfish gets my vote…flat body, looks to have a good keeling heavy hook for the fly to cut during hard strips…beautiful predator fly…streamers need more love in these contests!
That floating crab pattern is next level. I am going to order some.
I wasnt aware of this event… next time
Great looking flies!
All great choices!
crab, craw, and gurgler.
Some fish catchers, for sure! I’m partial to the warmwater/salty flies though.
That floating crab by Destination Flies will do work!!!
That floating crab by Destination Flies will do work. Nice work!!
Awesome job!
Enjoy all the hard work in the many flies
Crab for the win.
nice ties!
Great flies! Good luck for everyone!
Nice flies. I would love to rank them again after fishing them.
Nice job to all entrants!
That’s about a weeks work for me. Not to mention endless cursing.
I’ve just started making my own flies and hope to enter next year. Good luck to all the entrants!
Thanks for the opportunity to enter this contest I am mohrflyco it is a great opportunity. Thanks again
Hard to choose just 3. I would use (most of) those!
Wow! Am inspired! Thanks for having great new ideas!
Very nice flys. Floating crab is a must have for fishing the Texas coast
Nice flies, love the Streamer
Nice flies. Good luck.
A bit colorful, but……
Great flies this year!
All the flies are awesome, it was hard to choose.
It was hard to choose! I’m a beginner so thanks for the inspiration!! Tight lines…
All are impressive… well done!
Awesome flies! Tough to choose only three, great work everyone!
All of them are “how in the heck was that tied” amazing. Mine just look like like moss and sticks tied onto a hook. Great work!
Great flyes
Each is recognizable, with uncommon use of materials, and great execution. Very fish-able.
Thank you for this opportunity Orvis, I am Mr_Decor. congrats to all that were chosen!
-tight lines