Mrs Loopy and I decided to take a short break together and the good lady consented to a visit to the Swedish Fly Fair which also encompassed outdoor activities and pleasure craft boats. The exhibition Centre was pretty big almost up to the dimensions of the Excel Centre in London. As I mentioned there were plenty of other activities going on apart from fly tying! There was Rock Climbing and Ice Sculpture and even a demonstration of panning for gold.
And loads of kayaks being demonstrated. But turning to the Fly Tying Exhibition there were superb examples being shown by Nicklas Runersson............
Check out his bicycle fly on the left.
Then of course there was the Green Drake fly and book signature by A K Best and here is the man with Roy Christie.............
The fly in question being a Green Drake................
In the meantime Niklas Dahlin was tying up some beauties and managed to place a few in my newly acquired Lars Anderson fly box.
Bought a frame of flies from Igor Stancev for £170.00 (gulp did I really pay that?) and received a contribution from Mrs Loopy for my birthday. The kid that inherits my flies better take some good advice if they want to sell.
All in all we spent six hours at the fair and both enjoyed it. Quite a lot of time was spent with Roy who had us both in hysterics with his great stories.
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