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Well it's another new year and life is just one big roller coaster and learning circle!
The weather has been a bit up and down since October , but summer is on its way I'm sure about that.

The shop is just starting to see a few more old faces and new ones and everybody has been having fun. Well I say that but you always get a few people that don't know how to smile. :) The fishing bums that I know too well have started to descend and most nights I've had smelly socks left at the door as I now have a large selection of slipper for them all to wear. Some of them scream when they put as they are so used to having constant wet feet and they cant bear the warm sensation of the camo slippers.

Chris and Dan, Paula, Brooke, Simon, Max have been helping keep the rocking sounds on in the shop and its always great to have happy people around who can dance better than me. The Sexy Loop sock army have also landed in NZ, with more to follow and its good to always hear the stories of strange fish caught from around the world , beer that's been sampled and new gear that's about to be released and girls that have been kissed!

Paul (Mr Sock) and Ronan (one angry chap) last year got in tow with a production company headed by Carl McNeil (bumcast) and filmed the pilot for a series for SKY TV called FISH THIS. I've now seen it and I rate it, its fun and should be a huge hit so look out for it on SKY TV. I hope it works out for all the people involved. Sexyloops have also just released another great chaotic man fishing DVD called the revolution which
you can get from there web site www.sexyloops.com .

These last few months I gave an interview about my flies etc on the blog of www.thisisfly.com which is a cutting edge free web magazine out of the states. They have also just did a feature with photos in the dec issue on the shop, which just goes to show ,that this little shop in the middle of nowhere is now known throughout the world. Check out the free mag at www.thisisfly.com The shop is now nearly finished and the feed back has been great and everybody thinks its a fishermans/womans paradise, with all the goodies and information its stocked and displayed with.

I now have even more Sage rods than before with the TCX being my favorite rod for casting and fishing with. Its replaced the TCR casting stick and its a rod I would say is more suited to most casting and fishing situations. I now due to my work load and not getting any fishing time for myself cast this rod every morning when I walk to get my post as I don't have a dog and its good for me to keep my casting hand in for my casting demos and lessons and I rate it as the best new rod available at the moment ,but not for everybody.

I've been kept busy since the start of the season helping people with their casting with my new improved one and a half hour casting lessons as well as my guiding. I'll have some new bright orange fly lines for casting practice called the dogs balls (yip that's what the guy has called them from Aussie).

The rivers have all been in top shape here in southland and all of them having great conditioned fish in them. Mostly due to the weather pattern the fish have been taken by my clients on small very heavy tungsten nymphs but that's about to change! Hopefully the weather pattern changes and it will not be long before its brown beetle mania in the mornings and evenings and green beetle mania on the lakes. The cicadas have just started to chirp this week quite loud and there is plenty of blowflies buzzing around, I know it will not take long before the trout find these tasty morsels on the surface and the fishing becomes quite easy compared to upstream nymphing.
Well if its cutting edge flies your after, a new sage rod & reel, A new fish pond pack/vest, waders, new wading boots, fishing glasses, NZ fishing gifts or a casting lesson. You know where to stop :)

Oh! and check out the online shop to see the new funky fly fishing shirts and t-shirts etc, support the cause ,buy from somebody driven by sheer passion and living the dream!

If you are looking for Quality, look no further we have it all!

Thanks to everybody for there great support and fun and laughter and to the miserable people who make us all smile. :)

Keep on living! And stay happy :)
Cheers