Alvin has been a fly fishing guide and casting instructor for 12 years, and has been fly fishing for 32 years. He is a graduate of the first Joan Wulff fly-casting instructor's school, and has fished all over the western United States, Canada, Belize, Argentina, Chile and Honduras.
ALVIN DEDEAUX: All right, so we're getting ready to go on a fishing trip, we need something to carry our fishing gear in. A nice gear bag is a good thing. You can use this thing for just packing your stuff while you're at the house and you can also take it to the boat and I've pretty much got everything I need in here for a fishing trip. A couple of nice things about this bag is it's got a welded bottom, so it's totally waterproof. If I did want to sit it down to the boat, I could sit it in the boat in the water, up to here, you know actually up to the zipper and it won't get wet. It's got a nice lid that actually covers the zipper, so once I've closed this thing up like this, it's pretty much waterproof. The rain's not going to get in it, the water's not going to soak in from the bottom. All my stuff's protected, I can put my camera in here and I don't have to worry about it. It's got straps to carry it this way, it's got nice adjustable shoulder strap for when I'm carrying it to the airport. Nice compartments, a lot of them will actually have movable; I can adjust this or I can take the dividers out and make it just one big compartment. It's nice. It's got a little pocket up top, zippered pocket in the lid where I can get stuff that I need, and the way I've got it set up is I've got it kinda organized. I've got my fly boxes here, I've got sort of terminal tackle and stuff here, and then I got big stuff here: Binoculars, glasses, WD-40, hand sanitizer, stuff like that. So, I don't even really have to think about what I'm looking for. I just reach in the bag and automatically know this stuff's here, this stuff's here, this stuff's here, and I usually try to make it a point of always putting the stuff back in the same place, then that way, when you're out on the water, you're not fumbling around, digging through the bag like going on, "Where did I put that?" or "Where did put that?" That's always in the same place, so you just reach in there and get what you need.
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