Out Come The Dogs - Love of fishing

Instead of just photographing this sign, maybe I should have heeded the warning. There's a reason the book title is called. Out Come The Dogs.

The other creatives I have been working with suggested. That we have some maps in the book along with the 50 images to help transport you on the adventure step by step, so you know where this adventure takes place. This is one of the maps. I'm glad I listened to them. See, I do listen(sometimes). Thanks, D and R.

What a fantastic trout legal measuring stick- read about it when you pre-order your copy of OCTD and how the local fish enjoy fishing. Things you never knew that will help you.

Out of all the places I end up drawn to on a map of NZ, it's funny that I chose Athol to live for the past decades. The power of trout and my quest to design some of the world's best fishing flies!

Oh! Here's some latest breaking trout news.

We Atholites ! have just heard that some old historic newspaper records have just been discovered!

Where the first documented brown trout may have been caught in NZ, that may change and rewrite NZ trout history. Caught here in Athol by rod and line. From a small creek. Stay tuned. The expert historians are looking into it.

ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT! = years + of work for you all to enjoy wrapped up in over 500 fun pages

Last chance to support, help & get your copy. Feel the fishy LOVE.

PRE-ORDER - OUT COME THE DOGS.

Hope you are all smiling and having fun today.

Sorry to bother you all, though if I don't tell you all or ask, I realise nothing will happen without your valuable assistance. So please bear with me. To be honest, if you know me, not many people do unless they read my books. I actually despise asking anyone for help; it's not easy for me. And it's all rather stressful, putting my art out there after years of sitting and writing in silence. At all. But hey, I have to do it! If I wish to be creative and bring you all enjoyment and fun, doing this book thing. I'd rather just be writing the next book for you all to enjoy.

Fingers crossed, with such a final deadline only a couple of days away and still a way to go.

The only copy printed of the new book, the printer proof, was given to a lady in NZ, to read, who does not fish, to look out for any blips. She has just sent me this review of this new book.

Have a read and then hopefully get inspired to jump off the fence and pre-order your copy today, which will only be available through the pre-order and limited print if we can get it over the line.in the next few days before it finished. The time is now!

Cheers

Stu & Trigs

OUT COME THE DOGS REVIEW-

He's done it again through his quest to go fishing in the most out-of-the-way places this world has to offer; in this book, we find him exploring India. Stu's new non-fiction novel is captivating and interesting as well as informative. It’s Impossible not to gasp on one page and laugh out loud on the next.

Although he purports to go fishing, he manages to share with us his gift of keenly observing his surroundings and taking his readers to 'exotic' places where he meets and engages with very interesting local people and cultures. It’s a captivating book that’s hard to put down and had me wishing to book a ticket and go on an adventure. Stu has a unique voice, and it comes across in his writing. My husband, the only one in the family that owns a fishing rod, has just picked it up, and he’s chuckling with enjoyment in the corner.

Antonia Adam. New Zealand

One of the rivers, which I frequented with some local fishermen, flows right through the town known as Trout Town. A notorious area of northern India where many tourists get involved in the underbelly vanish! Sadly I survived.

Spending time with local fishermen is fun and humbling. There is so much to learn and questions to ask them. All of which you will find out about in your unique copy of Out Come to The Dogs, which has plenty of quality images, art, and Ben's poems to feast your eyes upon inside its excellent cover.

Guiding a client on the backwaters of the Oreti river, whos holding a trophy perch. That's me with the tash- joking as always! Thomas does not know it, but he features along with a pile of other international fly fishing trout bums in the Trout Love NZ future book! Out maybe next year- or the following. The cover for TROUT LOVE you can see at the bottom of the Out Come The Dogs, Kickstarter page.

We had a wild-food festival in Athol last month. This was my contribution. A selection of unique speciality pizzas! I have to admit the ingredients maybe not be as labelled.! You gotta have fun in life :)

Can't beat a lucky cap and the best flies and a fat rainbow trout = one happy & confident fisherman. A beauty of a rainbow trout from the north island.

The last printed copy of Jungle Blues ( the corrected better version) of the third print run) got sent out to Japan. Not sure if it will ever be printed again. Only a few copies are left of CHASING TIGERS- then that will be sold out and out of print.

Another NZ exotic? Or a beauty from Darwin, with a man that goes by the name of Rainbow Rod who dresses to kill. You should see the mans underpants! Enjoy your retirement, RR..

There's a connection with this image on the t-shirt from a band's classic album cover and the OUT COME THE DOGS- book title - every fly name and book title has a unique story. There's always a reason. Always a creative, fantastic story. Gotta keep things exciting and fun. Trying to keep entertaining you all. :)

Trout Madness - Robert Traver (John Voelker)

Benny Sip, the great NZ fly fishing poet and writer, who trades me some of his wonderful poems that appear in all my books. For flies that I use in my books, sent me this. Note his father used to sell this guy clothes back in the day. Love this clip and the cutting-edge fly fishing humour for that time, not to mention the title TROUT MADNESS- gotta love that. I was going to use that for a book- though well beaten to that title, long ago. Bless.

A day in the life of trout fisherman Robert Traver - (John Voelker), Michigan Supreme Court Justice and award-winning novelist of "Anatomy of a Murder", "Trout Madness", "Trout Magic", and other works, including "Testament of a Fisherman".

Check out Benny Sip (he's about to release another amazing book)