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Unfortunately no. I'm an old bloke who has been fishing for 73 plus years, so I still have a lot to learn. I have fly fished on an off since 1964. With the exception of the coast from Karratha to Darwin and the west coast of Tasmania I have fished most of the waters of Australia both fresh and salt. I have also fished in NZ from the Bay Of Islands to Invercargill and in, Fiji, PNG, Cook Islands, Kiritimati, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, China, Japan, Ireland and USA. In the 70s, 80s and 90s I game fished for 18 years so have caught one or a few big ones. For twenty years of my working life I travelled for up to thirty weeks a year and I took every opportunity to fish when it occurred. Since I retired, twenty four years ago, I have had on average three trips a year. I became very serious about Saltwater Fly Fishing in 2009 when I decided to go to Kiritimati for the Bones so I have been tying flies since then and gone exclusive with fly since 2010. Since then I have caught 45 saltwater and 7 freshwater species (No Salmonaides) on fly. It was then when I was introduced to TFO. I got four 8wt rods up from the Australian distributor ie an Axiom, TiCr, TiCrX & BVK and a couple of 10wts and did a test. There was little difference in the results with the 8wts and although the BVK came out on top I chose the Axiom as it, in my opinion, had a better set up of the guides to control the line when the Bones were screaming off. Twelve years later I have the Axiom & Axiom II 8wts, TiCrX and Mangrove 10wts and a Mangrove 12wt, a TiCrX13-15wt and 2 BVK Reels. Last but not least I set up the TFO Fly Fishers Group on Facebook and we have 1.467 members at present Photo is a small fish I caught and released in the TiCrX 10wt Cheers B|

The NXT is the way to start...great system #tforods