Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most from your time on the water.

Here's acclaimed fly fishing author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiasts. from your

fly fishing author, and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenbauer.

Hi and welcome to the Orvis fly fishing guide podcast.

It is Monday, December 19th, 2011, and we're going to try to get this podcast right up today.

It's a short one, but I wanted to give you some ideas, five ideas, five tips for last minute gifts for Christmas or

whatever holiday you celebrate this time a year and also to wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy holidays and to thank you all for listening to the

Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast. We love doing this and we love your feedback

and we get lots of great feedback.

And it's really fun to learn together with listeners of the podcast.

I learn a lot from you.

I learn about what you want to hear about. I learned some tips myself when you come back and give us feedback in Facebook or in the

podcast forum or on the Orvis

podcast telephone line.

So it's really satisfying and I just want to wish you all

a Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

Now, you're listening to this podcast.

You probably aren't the one that this podcast should be directed at, but I can't get this out to your parents and

and your significant other or your kids. So you're going to have to do that part of it yourself.

You're going to have to say, hey, listen to this short podcast

and maybe they'll, maybe they'll take the hint

and get you what you want for the holidays. So let's try and see how it works.

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