The 11th Annual “20 Days in September” Contest Starts Today!

The finalists from the Orvis 2024 contest produced some great photos that captured a number of species and quite a lot of on-the-water experiences.

Though astronomical summer time doesn’t finish till September twenty first, most children are again at school, and the nights are rising more and more crisp. It’s a time to replicate on how properly you spent the longest days of the yr.

Again in 2014, I had a tricky summer time, fishing-wise, so to make up for it, I set myself a objective: to go fishing 20 days in the course of the month of September. Thus was born the “20 Days in September” Mission. I had a lot enjoyable—and loved my time on the water a lot—that I opened up the mission to everybody and turned it into a photograph contest that I ran on the Orvis Fly Fishing weblog and social media. For the following 10 years, the competition attracted an increasing number of members, a lot of whom informed us what a blast they’d attempting to finish the problem.

Get Able to Fish!

I’m excited to announce that “20 Days in September” lives on as a partnership amongst MidCurrent, Orvis, and Scientific Anglers. Right here’s the way it works:

1. Make an trustworthy try to get on the water 20 occasions throughout September. After all, these don’t must be full and even half days of angling. Simply 10 casts are sufficient to depend on any given day. So steal time at any time when you possibly can: earlier than work, at lunchtime, after work, or . . . (cough) throughout work. On weekends, get in a couple of casts round household time, youngsters’ sports activities, or yard work.

   You don’t have to finish the 20 days to win. 

2. This isn’t nearly trout. Any species and sorts of water are eligible—from bass and pike in lakes, to stripers and bonefish in saltwater, to carp in canals. Should you can catch it on a fly, it’s sport. The one limitation is that the fish should be caught in the course of the month of September 2025.

3. Take photos of your fish, the water, your fellow anglers, the flies you’re utilizing, or the rest. To advertise good fish dealing with, photographs could not present trout held out of the water. With a lot low, heat water across the nation, we need to make sure that trout are launched as rapidly as attainable, with no additional day trip of the water for photographs.
   

4. Submit your photographs to Instagram with the hashtag #20sepdays and tag @midcurrent, @orvisflyfishing, and @scientificanglers. (Solely photographs utilizing the hashtag and all three tags shall be eligible!)

5. On the finish of the month, we’ll undergo all of the photographs and choose 10 finalists. Then we’ll allow you to vote for the winners!

Prizes!

The prizes up for grabs are well worth the effort:

First Place
Orvis Superfine Graphite 5-weight fly rod, Battenkill Click reel +
SA Magnitude Smooth Trout Expert Clear Tip Float fly line.

Second Place
Clearwater Reel & Spools 3-Pack + three SA fly lines.

Third Place
Orvis Sling Pack + an assortment of Absolute Leader and Tippet

We’ll additionally give 2 One-Year Subscriptions to the All-New MidCurrent Learning Center: One to a randomly chosen one who posts a photograph of them choosing up trash whereas fishing, and one to a randomly chosen voter on the finish of the competition.

You don’t have to finish your 20 days to be eligible to win, however we may have a Roll of Honor for individuals who do handle to finish the Mission. So begin begin carving out extra time for fishing. Do you suppose you possibly can hit the 20 mark?

Click here for the full contest rules and conditions.

The competition is open solely to authorized residents of the USA who’re 18 or older. (We apologize to our readers in Canada and abroad. Click here for an explanation of why we have to do this.)