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With the contest completed, the editors at Fly Fishing in Salt Waters have picked a winner! ****

By Sam Hudson

Updated: January 4, 2013

Our Contest Winner!

Bobby Cawley: While visiting British Columbia during the summer of 2012, I fly fished the Fraser River and the upper Pitt River for Wild Chinook, Steelhead and Bull Trout. Then, I took one afternoon to do some sky diving and I thought…what a great time to catch up on the latest issue of FFSW while sky diving over the river I had fished the day prior (see the Fraser River in the background). Click here for past details to this 2012 contest.

Trey Mangus: The Marine Corps deployed me to western Afghanistan a few months ago. Needless to say, my fall season is busted. My loving wife makes sure to send me the latest edition of my favorite magazine.

Tracy Mackenzie: Taken on Abaco, December 25th. After all the hard work was done, Santa grabbed a paddle board and an eight weight to see if he could catch any presents.

Julie Greene: I recently visited Tikehau, French Polynesia to explore some of the world’s most remote atolls. We had just finished diving with barracuda, reef sharks and mantas — only wishing we had our fishing gear on the boat too. My copy of FFSW did make it deep into the Pacific though.

Danial Branam: I am submitting a picture of myself and a copy of FFSW atop the Acropolis in front of the Parthenon in Athens Greece. I have been working in Europe these last few months and have tried to get out fly fishing when possible.

Darren Smit: Photo taken on a recent trip to Mt. Kiliimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. We all three managed to successfully summit at midday allowing us the privilege of having the mountain to ourselves. We couldn’t resist the photo opt.

Ed Hudson: We travelled from Boston to Yosemite National Park before heading onto the coast for some halibut fishing from the surf. Tenaya lake is a beautiful spot for a photo with my favorite magazine.

Ed Hudson: I didn’t make it to the top of Mt. Everest, but I did make it to Yosemite and the Half Dome. 8,000 ft above sea level.

Ed Hudson: I travelled from Boston to Los Angeles with the intention of using the advice offered on halibut fishing in the surf. Before heading out, I stopped by for a photo with this kind gentleman and my guide for the day.

Ed Hudson: We were heading out to try for some halibut in the surf and stopped at the world famous Santa Monica Pier.

Dave Barson: I’m just a Barfly.

Mack Cody: Hanging in the bar with my favorite mag.

Tom Davis: The Next Generation.

Dan Watson: Raid on the Suwanee River, 1863 reenactment; sitting down for a good read.

Jake Mulholland: Bruno fishing fleet.

Jake Mulholland: Missing my rod

Jake Mulholland: Just missing the boat again

Jake Mulholland: Island of Bruano, Italy beautiful fishing community

Jake Mulholland: Fishing for Granit Grouper

Jake Mulholland: Fighting gladiators instead of permit

Jake Mulholland: What? This isn’t the menu?

Jake Mulholland: This is what happens when Romeo leaves Juliet unattended.

Dave Coppola: This was taken in Kauai, HI. That is the Waimea Mountains behind me. To the right background is the spot Harrison Ford and Anne Heche jumped into the ocean off that small cliff in the movie, Six Days Seven Nights.

Michael Richards: Stalking snook, found a red.

Patrick Painter: Dreaming and scheming about teasing the biggest, baddest fish to the transom…all my 12 wt. Gulfstream Tibor reel can muster…down Cat Island Way. Out Islands, Bahamas.

Jonathan Goldman: Went to visit my son in Portugal. Porta Munoz has salt water pools for swimming that fill at high tide.

Jonathan Goldman: Cabo Girao Madeira, Portugal one of the highest sea cliffs in the world.

Ernst Horn: The End of the road

Ernst Horn: On the Beach

Jeff Goldberg — New York, New York Caught in My Office

Rob Switzer — Smithville, New Jersey In the Shadow of Atlantic City

Scott Stroud — Austin, Texas Fly Fishing in the Swiss Alps Picasa

Scott Stroud — Austin, Texas ‘Bernd das Brot’ Devours Picasa

Mack Cody — Winters, California 3 Hour Delay at Los Cabo’s Airport, at least Don Julio was there

Brandon McGlamery — Maitland, Florida Adrian!!!!

Jarrett Dorough — Middletown, Connecticut Not a 40 lb. bass but surely a catch of a lifetime! My wife posing on our 1st Anniversary

Tony Rogers — College Station, Texas Hammer First, Cast Later. Summer school class at Holy Cross Anglican School, San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize

Brett Sauer — Russiaville, Indiana I’m Divided

David Lee — Delray Beach, Florida Traveling through an ice field in the Arctic Circle looking for Polar Bears

Chip Desmone — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Hangin’ with Lefty Kreh

Tiffany Meek — Baton Rouge, Louisiana Everyone is grabbing your magazine, even the octopus!

Paul Gierman — New York Newquay Harbour, Cornwall, England

Richard Stacey — (Unknown Home) Take the A Train

Mosby Vogler — Winston Salem, North Carolina On the Flats with the Pinder Brothers in Grand Bahama

Will Stephens — Manalapan, New Jersey Cybil Stephens Clowning Around in Campeche, Mexico

Mark Peeler — Crownsville, Maryland Taking a break from fishing searun brown trout and salm on Ireland’s Lake Lough Picasa

Dave Dembicki — Chesapeake, Virginia Celebrating Retirement on the Hawaiian Bonefish Flats

Adam Roark — Houston, Texas Start ’em Young! Story time before bedtime with my 6 year old son and 22 month old daughter.

Lane Hornbeck — Corpus Christi, Texas Donald Duck, a Hell of a Fly Fisherman

Lane Hornbeck — Corpus Christi, Texas Bruce Loves the taste of Fly Fishing in Salt Waters

Lane Hornbeck — Corpus Christi, Texas Minding my business when out of nowhere, I was surprised by an angry T-Rex

Craig Dumesnil –- Hilton Head, SC Any fish near the Great Wall of China?

Edwin Fabrega — Miami, FL The waters of Gatun Lake, near the Panama Canal, are fishing grounds for peacock bass, snook and tarpon.

Craig Dumesnil –- Hilton Head, SC Here I am in Bali, Indonesia at the airport. I took my fly rod and fished a flat at Sanur Beach, but had no luck!

Craig Dumesnil –- Hilton Head, SC I came all the way to Singapore with Fly Fishing in Salt Waters. The Marina Bay Sands Hotel is in the background.

Frans Jansen – (Unknown Home) I’m reading the current issue onboard a Russian MI8 helicopter on a 3-hour flight to a Taimen camp in Mongolia.

Tracy and Michelle Leland — Honolulu, HI First day of fishing at the Marls with a guide, we both caught our first bonefish ever! We pulled out the magazine to get a shot, and noticed it happened to be the Abaco issue from this past year!

Lue Her — Toccoa Falls, GA Had to read something while I waited for the deer to start moving again. Sadly, we only saw one at dawn.

Kyle and Cidy Holt — New Castle, CO This could be the first issue of Fly Fishing in Salt Waters to tour the Prado in Spain. Picasa

Kyle and Cidy Holt — New Castle, CO This could be the first issue of Fly Fishing in Salt Waters to tour the Prado in Spain. Picasa

Kyle and Cidy Holt — New Castle, CO This could be the first issue of Fly Fishing in Salt Waters to tour the Prado in Spain. Picasa

Kyle and Cidy Holt — New Castle, CO Which is prettier? Fly Fishing in Salt Waters or a statue of the artist Goya, outside the Prado? Picasa

Brian Howe – Heath, OH No mission trip to Haiti is complete without a copy of Fly Fishing in Salt Waters.

Brian Howe – Heath, OH On a dental mission trip to Haiti, taking out teeth for a week, I had to stop at this school to read Fly Fishing in Salt Waters.