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10th Annual Fly Tying Exposition
The Great Lakes Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers will host the 7th Annual Fly Tying Exposition at the Ingham County Fairgrounds in Mason, Michigan on Saturday, December 2, 2008. The expo will be open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Over 100 tiers will be on hand this year to demonstrate their fly tying skills. We are pleased to announce Royce Dam from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin will again be joining us this year as one of our featured tiers. Royce is a master fly tyer with over fifty years of fly tying experience and is the 1994 Federation of Fly Fishers Buz Buszek Award recipient. The Buszek Award is the Federation's most prestigious fly tying award.
Royce will be joined by Buszek Award recipients Jeff “Bear” Andrews and Chris Helm. Returning talents also include Dennis Potter, Rusty Gates, Ray Schmidt, Dick Walle, Julie Nielsen, Chris Soule, Oscar Feliu, Kelly Galloup, a returning talent, and many others. Fly tiers will be tying a vast selection of patterns including trout flies, bass bugs, saltwater flies, streamers, emergers, dries, wets, and others. Once again, tiers will have the opportunity to sell their flies and fly tying associated goods from their table. The area for vendors will be greatly expanded with vendors offering a wide variety of fly tying, fly fishing and related products.
A number of events will be featured throughout the day including door prizes, silent auctions, bucket raffle, and a live auction during the lunch hour. There will also be an instruction table for individuals to tie their first fly.
New, former, and renewing FFF members who attend the Expo will be given $10 off a one-year membership, and $10 off plus an Expo T-Shirt for a three-year membership. This offer is for individual and family memberships, and only for those signing up at the Expo. There is a modest admission fee for the event: $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for children 13-18; children 12 and under are free.
Contact Dorothy Schramm to nominate a tier for the event at (231) 869-54876 or jdschramm@oceana.net. |
