Sunday morning, 06:50 the door bell rang, it was Trevor Coxon. "Sorry I'm early" he said, "better early than late". I was still munching on toast and marmalade when I opened the door. We were leaving at seven to go too the Fly Fair in Stoke on Trent (172 miles away), I was doing the driving and we got there at about 10:00.

Trevor has been tying flies for over 30 years now (Trevors' Website is under construction), he teaches fly dressing and is also a qualified fly casting instructor. I myself like to go to shows with someone else, as it gives a chance to discuss what you see there and Trevor was ideal with all his experience.

I had a small list of things I wanted to buy, but it was very tempting to spend a lot more, especially with Trevor saying what about this or this. I had to be very strong on one item (a vice) £135.00, he said go on, I said no as I could not justify spending that much. It will have to be for another time but it was very tempting.

I did buy some small size flat lead and a fox squirrel skin. We also met Chris Reeves who had a stand there and is also a member of the Surrey Fly Dressers Guild as both Trevor and myself are. Chris was demonstrating Fly Tying and making flies as people requested them. We also met Chis Sandford who comes to our fly tying classes in Ripley. He had a stand showing some of his collection of antique fishing tackle. I bought his latest book a " A Wellie Full Of Water".

Trevor bought me a very clever device to hold discarded line. I does not matter how good you are in putting in your pocket, the next time you put your hand in, out comes the old line and you don't know that you've dropped it.

We met a young fly tyer from Sweden, Johan Klingberg. We didn't talk for long as he was rushing off to do a presentation. But as luck would have it he was giving a talk at the fly dressers guild on Monday evening. He gave an extremely  interesting talk  along with slides and a short film.