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
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
Loads of folk I did know, hundreds I didn't. New friends made and delightfully some forum members met for the first time
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:
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
Kev talking to Magnus. I felt Magnus seemed too grumpy, so edited him out
There were lots of these, must have been 20 folk tying fully dressed patterns:
Have a few more pics, but these will do. 10/10 folks, you need to add this to a must visit list.
H
