Come Celebrate 5,000 Comments and Your Chance to Win a Hat!

Last week we quietly passed another great milestone here at Fishing Fury- 5,000 comments! To celebrate I thought we’d give away some stuff to our awesome users who helped us reach the 5,000 mark. Tell us in the comments below why you love our blog for your chance to win and we’ll choose two winners at random this weekend. Comment as many times as you like!

New posts will appear below this one until we choose the winners this weekend.

Leave your comments below for your chance to win either a Quantum hat or Frogg Toggs visor! Both prizes have been treated with Kiwi Camp Dry Heavy Duty Water Repellent, so they’re ready to hit the water the moment you open them!

Our randomly chosen winners are…. Woody and Mike! Sammy was a winner but he said he didn’t need a hat and even after emailing him to say that he won he said we should select another winner, so we did! Congrats to all and thank you for joining in our celebration!

Stormy Kromer Big Fish Contest

Stormy Kromer, maker of the awesome hats you’ll probably recall from our Stormy Kromer give-away, have just announced their Big Fish Contest. This your best chance to win a Stormy Kromer hat, they’re giving away two hats every month from now until September, in addition to that they’re giving away another hat for the “Netman” award to the biggest fish netted.

Last but not least, the grand prize for the Stormy Kromer Big Fish Contest is a huge and amazing set of gear including (take a deep breath if you’re reading this one outloud)…. A Stormy Kromer hat, Stormy Kromer jacket, Stormy Kromer pants, Stormy Kromer shirt, Stormy Kromer gloves, AND a selection of five Rapala fishing lures, a St. Croix fishing rod, and a Stone Legacy rod holder. Enough to make any fisherman the envy of everyone around him.

This will undoubtedly be one of the most epic big fish contest this year so I want to see lots of submissions from Fishing Fury readers and we’d also love to see your big fish submissions and let us know if you win anything!

Watch out for Musky Bill, we know he loves the hat he won in our giveaway and there’s no doubt that he’s always catching big fish.

The History of Stormy Kromer

In case you been wondering what a “Stormy Kromer” is, its more then just a hat. Check out the history of Stormy Kromer below and don’t forget to submit your own story for a chance to win a free hat!

Retired semi-pro baseball player, railroad engineer and general tough character Stormy lost a few too many hats to the icy wind whipping through his locomotive.

On a cold morning in 1903, Stormy asked his beloved wife, Ida, to help him modify one of his many hats from his baseball days by sewing ear flaps on the thing. The newly revised cap also featured a soft flexible visor and was a great departure from the traditional engineer hats of the era. But to Stormy, the best part of his modified cap was that it managed to stay right where it belonged on his head high winds and all.

And that’s it. That’s where it all began.

It was just a matter of time before the Stormy Kromer cap became so popular first among other locomotive engineers and then among all the hard-working folks in the upper Midwest that in 1919 Stormy created the Kromer Cap Company, moving with his wife and employees to a large manufacturing factory in Milwaukee.

From that point on he spent the rest of his days as a hat maker. Anyone who’s ever owned a genuine Stormy Kromer has undoubtedly said several words of thanks for the man’s diversity.

Today, the Stormy Kromer cap is still made true to its original design continuing to protect all those who wear one throughout the North.