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Excellence In Craft Competition

2005 EIC Winners

1.       Book … no contest; only one entry.

2.       Illustration … no contest/no entries

3.       TV Broadcast/Video … no contest/no entries

4.       Radio Broadcast … no contest/no entries

5.       Award of Special Merit … Hovey Smith

6.       Newspaper story, weekly   1 – Hovey Smith,  “Taking Aim at  City Deer”
        (tie for 1^st place) 1 – Eric Bruce,  “Accommodations Worth Hiking To”
        2 – Terry Johnson, “Our Favorite Game Fish”

 7.      Newspaper story, daily …  1 – Rob Pavey,
        “First Turkeys are Most Memorable”
         2 – Ronnie Garrison, “Here’s Why, When You Stock Bass”
         3-- Bob Kornegay, “Life Comes Full Circle”                 

8.       Conference Site story …    1 – DeWayne Spires,
        “Blue Ridge and the New Guy”
         2 – Chuck Thompson, “Slow Down Far From the Big City in Beautiful Blue Ridge”
         3 – Bill Vanderford, “Hunting the Elusive ‘Brookie’”

 9.         Electronic …    1 – Ron Brooks,  “A Different Perspective: Fishing in years past
           meant lots  of room and freedom … or did it?”
           2 – Hovey Smith, “The Modern Hunting Crossbow”
           3 – Ronnie Garrison, “Four-Footed Fishing Friend”

10.         Non-Game/Outdoor Rec     1 – Terry Johnson,
            “Wild Animals Never Cease to Amaze Me”
           2 –  Bill Vanderford, “Having Fun ‘Birding’ the Rio Grande Valley"
           3 – Rob Pavey, “Noisy House Guests Relocated”

 11.         Color Photograph …   1 – Chuck Thompson, “Fly-Fishing on Fightingtown Creek”
            2 – Bill Cooper, “Dream Buck”
            3 – Jimmy Jacobs, “Fly-Fishing Beach Creek”

 12.          B/W Photograph …   1 – Bill Vanderford, “Fishing for ‘Brookies’”
             2 – Jimmy Jacobs, “Fly-Casting Cumberland Sound”
             3 – Polly Dean, “Redfish on a Fly”

 13.          Magazine story …  1 – Hovey Smith,  “A Modern Affair: A Relic of the Irish Rebellion
             of  1798 Tells Its Story”
             2 – Bill Cooper, “Two Bucks for Sister Sarah”
             3 -- Bob Kornegay, “Foreign Relations Fishing”
 

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