2014 Fly Tying Symposium Winners

Winners of the fly tying and casting competition at the International Fly Tying Symposium, held recently held in Somerset, NJ, have been announced.

Read more in the press release below.

2014 Fly Tying Symposium Winners Exhibit Amazing Skills at the Vise

SOMERSET, Penn. – Fifteen year old Rylie Lake stopped the judges in their tracks with a spot-on realistic imitation of a lady bug at the annual International Fly Tying Symposium in Somerset, NJ.

Lake, of Napanoch, NY, won the competitive Youth Division by replicating the realistic methods of noted fly tier Bob Mead, Glenville, NY.

According to Chuck Furimsky, Tying Symposium director, the youth winner “learned how to tie the Lady Bug by watching Mead. Bob thought the youngster was so nice when he called to get his permission to enter the lady bug he copied. Mead was pleased by how the youngster asked for his permission to enter his design, and then won.”

Judges for the event included Bob Clouser, Fishy Fullum, Enrico Puglisi, Tom Baltz, Charlie Craven, Gary Borger, Ben Furimsky, Marc Petitjean, John Shaner, Mead and Bob Popovics.

Winners were:

• Trout: “Gray Fox Paddychute,” Greg Glitzer, Douglastown, Penn.
• Bass: tie between “Shadnado” Bryce Fitzgerald, West Grove, Penn.; and “Deer Hair Popper” Holger Herold from Germany
• Saltwater: “Green Deceiver,” Jere Haldeman, Marmora, NJ
• Salmon/Steelhead: “Parson,” Bill Chandler, Burlington, Vt.
• Realistic: “Morphing Stonefly,” Scott Stryker, Scotch Plains, NJ
• Youth: “Lady Bug,” Rylie Lake, Napanoch, NY.

In the fiberglass rod casting competition, Ben Furimsky, Crested Butte, Colo., and Mike McFarland, Altoona, Penn., tied. They jointly donated the prize custom Seele flyrod to Dutch fly tier Theo Bakelaar to be auctioned on behalf of a children’s cancer center in the Netherlands.

Contact:

The International Fly Tying Symposium
531 North Center Ave.
Suite 102
Somerset, PA 15501

Chuck Furimsky
[email protected]
(814) 443-3638