FUN WAS HAD BY ALL

These are a few pictures taken at the Fair by Bob Bates and others.
They are organized by topic.
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Art
Awards
Banquet
Tiers
Vendors
Volunteers
Youth

Art

Karen Royer, usually noted for her realistic flies, also turns out to be a wonderful artistic baker.		Look carefully, there is a mayfly on top of the stump. Karen fed it to Carl Johnson.

Awards

After the banquet a few awards were given to FFF members who contributed to the FFF.

Carl Johnson was awarded the Washington Federator of the Year for his outstanding work on behalf of the FFF and the Council. He visited all of the fly clubs in the state promoting the Council and the FFF. He is also credited with making this Fly Fishing Fair a reality. l to r Don Simonson, Maura Johnson (who is very supportive of Carl's FFF activities) and Carl Johnson. Photo by Bob Bates		Bob Bates was given the Fly Tier Hall of Fame Award for his work on the FFF Fly of the Month web pages, activity in Council activities and skills as a fly tier. l to r Carl Johnson, Steve Brocco (2009 Award), Bob Bates and Harry Lemire (2008 Award). Photo by Mike Clancy.
Larry Gibbs is a tireless worker on the Council and FFF raffles and auctions. He is nominated for the Council Award of Excellence which will be given to him at the 2010 Fly Fishing Fair and Conclave in West Yellowstone, MT. Photo by Bob Bates		Four Posthumous inductees into the Fly Tier Hall of Fame were made. Members of the fly clubs where they were active summarized their fly tying life. The Sand Shrimp, bottom, was tied by John Newbury the first recipient and 2009 Buszak winner. It is part of the traveling plaque. Photo by Bob Bates

Banquet

Radio City BBQ prepared the Banquet		People lined up quickly; they knew it would be great.

Tiers

Tak Shimizu had people around him both days showing them how to make salmon hooks out of piano wire.
Jerry McBride Demonstrating his balanced bead head flies		Karen Royer and Vicki Hoagland
Bob Bates and Jerry McBride watching Henry Hoffman Photo by Leonard Gross		Leonard Gross, Photo by Jerry McBride
Jerry McBride		Bob Bates, Photo by Jerry McBride

Vendors

Vendors are an important part of our fly fishing/fly tying show. They have some new goodies and some things not available in regular shops. Vendors with big setups started working on Wednesday. Others came in Thursday and early Friday to be ready for the show opening at 11:00 am Friday.

Northpole Products		BT's Fishing Products, Al and Gretchen Beattty
Booths starting to come together		Skip Morris looking over BT's booth after setup
Snake River Outfitters, Nancy Davison		Clearwater River Company
Northwest Youth Academy		Dave Scadden Pontoon Boats

Volunteers

Work on a show like this one starts many months before the doors open, but the manual labor really got rolling on Wednesday before the opening on Friday. Volunteers from WSCFFF fly clubs started putting the tables together and putting up signs. Even after the tables were up the room still looked empty. Slowly it started filling in.

President Carl Johnson thanks the clubs that volunteered for specific tasks at this year's Fair:
Alpine Fly Fishers and Puget Sound Flyfishers for assisting with the Auction and Raffle,
Evergreen Fly Fishing Club for covering the hospitality for the fly tiers,
Fidalgo Fly Fishers who hosted the FFF Fly Fishing course,
Northwest Fly Anglers for handling the registration booths,
Spokane Fly Fishers for Friday's dinner and the coffee in the kitchen;
Wenatchee Valley Fly Fishers who gave kids tying lessons and helped on the entomology.

The main room sure looks empty		The entrance will be here someplace
Early tiers - Misako Ishamura and Mark Romero		Some vendor booths up
The raffle and auction crew ia always busy		Other parts are coming together
Tier packets ready, raffle crew in background. Vicki Hoagland and Dan Ferguson		Always time to talk to friends from other Councils Carl Johnson talking to James Ferguson from Oregon
The Friday night dinner was a highlight for the whole Fly Fishing Fair, Spokane Fly Fishers volunteered for this activity.
Carla Ferguson and Alli Melmoth with snacks		First Alli gives you the salad
Then Carla Ferguson dishs spaghetti		Finally the great sauce
For dessert somebody started cutting the fish		Karen helped because she knew where the bones were.

Youth

Students from Easton and Ellensburg schools came to our special classes for the youth. They had a chance to cast a fly line, tie flies and learn about insects. members of the Wenatchee Valley Fly Fishers worked on this.

Students gathered for a discussion on aquatic insects.		Com pairing insects in dishes to identification cards.
Drawing a stonefly. In much higher resolution, the drawing looked very accurate.		Look and learn.
Is it fun?? Yes!		Now what is this?
Pat Herdt teaching a young fellow to tie flies.		There were some older kids learning to tie flies also.

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