In a KVD-like victory, the winner of the 2011 GreatLakesBass.com fishing report contest is:
Revtro! Congratulations Revtro!
Revtro wins the new Grandt Rods C10 All American graphite casting rod (http://www.grandtrods.com/All%20American%20Pro%20Series%20Custom%20Graphite%20Fishing%20Rods) - the best spinnerbait rod I have ever owned! Fitting since Revtro fishes Lake St. Clair so much and this 7 foot rod is built for casting spinnerbaits and similar lures across the flats for big bass!!
Revtro posted 13 detailed fishing reports with a total of 7,340 views!! His reports included specific information, help for other anglers, pictures on several and were entertaining for any angler. If he had posted pictures on each report, the judges felt he would have earned all the prizes!! No one else was even close! It didn't hurt that Revtro posted very heavily under the Lake St. Clair Fishing Reports (http://www.greatlakesbass.com/forum/index.php?board=44.0) - a very high and popular traffic area, especially for search engine traffic!
2nd place was much, much harder to determine due to no other member clearly standing out considering no one else posted more than 4 fishing reports in the total of 64 fishing reports written during the contest period of April 30, 2011 through August 31, 2011.
In the end, the judges picked 2nd place due to this members having the 2nd highest number of views including the single post with the highest number of view - 1,237 (St Clair is on FIRE! (http://www.greatlakesbass.com/forum/index.php?topic=10129.0)) with the 2nd highest total views - 1,810 - despite only having two reports! Also, this member wrote interesting posts with LOTS of of great pictures - which works pretty good on this Internet thing!
So with no further delay, 2nd place and a new WaveSpin Reel (http://www.wavespinreel.com/) of his choice, goes to TCook! Congratulations TCook!
One member posted 4 reports, but all short with no pictures (edyer - 1,339 views). Some more detail and a few pictures could have brought a 2nd place. Four members posted 3 fishing reports each:
dartag 1,305
mikeszr800 1,243
bassfan586 1,201
Durand Dan 844
We decided to give dartag 3rd place because he had the 4th highest view count with 3 detailed and entertaining fishing reports that provided a lot of great fishing information - a few pictures could have won 2nd place! A prize pack with be sent out shortly.
Honorable mentions go out to:
*bassfan586 for 3 nice fishing reports including the very first report entered into the contest a little after 4pm the first day of the contest!
*peeters_skeeter for having the 2nd highest number of views overall for a single fishing report with 1,108! Not bad for a rookie. Erie report for 5-8-11 (http://www.greatlakesbass.com/forum/index.php?topic=10131.0) - guess I need to get more of you anglers to post about Lake Erie!! A couple more posts like this could have won 2nd place too!
*cameraguy for the best video fishing report - cameraguys Hardy Dam Pond VIDEO bass fishing report May 22, 2011 (http://www.greatlakesbass.com/forum/index.php?topic=10257.0) (I posted if for him because he did the hard part)!
Special mention to member Colin Linton for posting the most exotic fishing report with - Aussie Report! (http://www.greatlakesbass.com/forum/index.php?topic=10109.0) More of those would be fun!