Paul Arden | Saturday, 16 October 2021
I was saddened to hear that Roy Christie died last week. I’m sure I first met Roy prior to Sexyloops. Quite a long time ago anyway. We’d often bump into each other at various Fly Fairs. A quite outstanding and innovative fly tyer and a conservationist as well. Roy attended at least one Scottish Meet. He once sent me a whole bunch of flies too, many of which I still have. Upside-down, back-to-front, inside-out! A kind man and an interesting mix of an anarchist and a gentleman!
I thought I would post a few of his Sexyloops articles. His first article for us was "Putting Back the Rocks"...
https://www.sexyloops.com/articles/puttingbacktherocks.shtml
After which he wrote an excellent series on fly design....
https://www.sexyloops.com/articles/troutflydesign1.shtml
https://www.sexyloops.com/articles/troutflydesign2.shtml
https://www.sexyloops.com/articles/troutflydesign3.shtml
https://www.sexyloops.com/articles/troutflydesign4.shtml
Let's hope there is some big fly fishing Valhalla in the sky where we can all meet again and share fishing tales.
Here's to you Roy!
Cheers, Paul