went to the fly show today very disappointing paid entrance fee took all of 20 mins to have a look round a couple of tying stands a couple of fishing rod stands and a couple of stands to buy general gear all in all very disappointed.

i second that mate even though i got a canny deal on a rod/reel there was only about 5 or 6 sellers 1 guy was even selling second hand stuff and the raffle table was poor deffently not worth the entry fee hopefully next year they learn by there mistakes and make it a better day out

wasnt to impressed myself though did catch up with some ppl ive neva seen in ages thought it was very expensive

hi i was there today, only my second time. last year was better, thought would have been a fly casting demo, still got some gear myself but agree what's been said.
barry

ok so im not a happy chappy lol just looked at my package i bought and it doesnt tally up i got a 7 weight g-tec rod and grxi reel the reel is 5/6 weight not 6/7 weight the stand i bought it off never gave me a recipt and i cant remember the name of the shop what do i do now ???

where abouts was the stand???

it was the one next to the silver creek stand he had a stand of vison and greys rods infront of it along with a stand with coats/jackets etc and loads of rio fly line on his table

Get in touch with organiser mate soudnt be to hard to trace I bought a flybox again no reciept tax free I suppose.

Agree with everyone. Poor number of stands this year, if I hadn't met up with some long lost fishing pals I would have been in and out in about 30 minutes max.
As it was, I was there nearly 3 hours.
Where were all of the speakers and stands that were advertised?
Needs a rethink for next year methinks.

If I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about that and I'd get out and give it a go. The GRXi reel will take a #7 line easily and as it's a quite heavy reel, I reckon it will be fine with that rod (imho). I have a GTX reel in 5/6 and have #6 to #8 lines on it. I use it with a #7 Demon and it's fine. The bigger 7/8 reel is a beast.

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Don