My BFFI 'virginity' is now broken. Two busy old days with quite a long drive down and back to Stafford, but 100% worth it.
For the benefit of those who have yet to go it's actually difficult to capture the events of this weekend event in words or pictures; there's so much to see. Even when you think you’ve exhausted everything to see you haven’t - suffice to say that there's plenty to keep you busy for two days and definitely plenty of stuff to buy :cool:
I've seen everything from someone making huge single Salmon 'irons' from scratch to size 32 buzzers being tied in the same room.
Huge quantities of fly tying stuff I never thought I'd need - but I do now :wink Loads of folk I did know, hundreds I didn't. New friends made and delightfully some forum members met for the first time :z16
I won some prizes in the Casting for Recovery raffle and an auction item in the Saturday sale. I even won a free pint in the pub. At close to a fiver a pint, trust me that was appreciated. Somehow I’ve also ended up with not one but two Tenkara rods – I have a plan for them :!
Herewith a few pics from the trip, I helped the Orvis team set up their stand on the Friday:
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Chocolate bunt cake, made by Rachael Brady the Orvis Lady (thanks Euan, that's now firmly embedded ;) )
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Free pint on a Friday night :z18
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Kev talking to Magnus. I felt Magnus seemed too grumpy, so edited him out :X2 :z4
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There were lots of these, must have been 20 folk tying fully dressed patterns:
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Have a few more pics, but these will do. 10/10 folks, you need to add this to a must visit list.
H