well there was an awesome event(30th anniversary) at the local fly shop!(ernies casting pond) in santa cruz, california

there was a very good fly tier robert cesena demonstarting how tos and tying some patterns. and at the end of the whole thing offered flies out of his fly box to anyone who wanted one!

there also was about three young people there who were learning about fly casting and cool things like that

they had tons of the newest zero gravity and trout bum orvis rods to test cast in the parking lot! they had zero gs from 12-4wt and speys. the trout bums were ranging from 6' 2wts to 7 1/2' 4 wts

i managed to test cast almost all of them and boy were they sweet!!

they also raffled off a 9' 5wt zero gravity rod , orvis mid arbor reel, orvis gen. 3 line, and a guide bag withe a magnetic fly tray in the lid of it!!
sadly i did not get anything in the raffle but no big deal.

overall it was an awesome time and great fun!