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The range of fishing furniture is home enough for all your gear.

If you’re anything like me, when it comes to fishing equipment then you’ll no doubt understand the moral dilemmas faced on where your rods and reels should best be stored. Often worth a small fortune, it seems only logical that such expensive and highly prized possessions be stored under the safety of ones own roof. This of course is all good and well from a male perspective but when it comes to the better half and she who should be obeyed, fishing equipment does not rate as furniture.
Most often, prized rods and reels valued at more than a thousand dollars are banished to the back shed where spiders use them as fastening points to spin their webs. Meanwhile a fifty-dollar vase takes pride of place center table for the entire world to see, not a spider in sight.   

Logic would say that a vase worth fifty bucks used to hold flowers is far less important than a thousand dollar fishing combo that has become the corner stone of a spider’s house. But logic is often lost in such gender related matters and in order to find common ground we need to go down the road of mediation, enter Mark Kingston. Mark’s mediating skills are 25 years in practice and are projected through his work as a cabinetmaker. Thwart with the same problem, Mark sought common ground through a range of finely crafted pieces of fishing furniture used to hold rods, reels and tackle. He has developed four different models each holding up to ten rods, two of which come with a built in reel and tackle cupboard on the end of the unit. Depending on what species of fish take your preference, each piece can be engraved with either a Murray cod, snapper, tuna or a trout. Such a simple idea has bought bliss into many households and adds new meaning to the words furniture king. Everybody’s happy, the lovely wife gets some new furniture, the man of the house has a spot indoors to store his beloved fishing gear, and the only ones missing out are the spiders. I wonder if they’d mind living in that vase that used to take pride of place before the real furniture arrived. For all your fishing furniture mediation, visit www.fishingxfurniture.com.au. or contact Mark on 039 727 3269.

Stormy has a great range of fishing apparel including PFD coats and vests. Click on the link to view some of their gear.

Remember the good old shoot em out westerns where men were men, and long johns were the fashionable underwear worn by some of the toughest hombre’s west of the Pecos. Not really your cat walk kind of clobber, but in practicality terms they were cutting edge fashion at the time. One of their most enduring features was the trap door rear end that catered for many of nature’s finer moments. No doubt a necessity in that rough and tumble era where the staple diet seemed to be a gastronomic concoction of beans and hard liquor. Of course the real benefits of wearing long johns were their ability to contain body heat during the coldest winter nights. This style of clothing has come a long way since the gun touting westerns. Modern day long johns or thermal attire are almost in vogue and widely worn by many who partake in winter based activities and of course these include fishing.
A day on the water at this time of the year calls for suitable attire and thermals are a good starting point. Not only do they contain body heat, but they are light and very comfortable to wear. From here heavy jeans, thick socks a good shirt and jumper are topped off with a wind and water resistant jacket. This should see you right for even the coldest of fishing adventures. Just like thermals, there are many styles of jackets and water resistant coats available including those that have a built in PFD. These come highly recommended for all styles of fishing from off shore to inland, they are the ultimate in wet weather clothing that could even save your life. Remembering that dressing up for the cold will also have the effect of weighing you down should you end up in the drink. Wearing one of the PFD styled jackets means that if you do get into trouble, then they are simply activated, keeping you above water. Hopefully things never come to that but its reassuring to know that as well as keeping you warm, the proper clothing can also keep you safe. While winter fishing is not for everyone, there are plenty of good fish to be caught at this time of the year and doing it in comfort is simply a case of dressing smart. So get out the thermals, bang on a coat and don the beanie because as far as the fashion stakes go, I’m sure the fish don’t really care.