Pay Day

DEEP WANTS PAY DAY

FIND BALANCE WITH AN EXERCISE AID TO GET YOU BACK OUT THERE, A PIPE AND A SOME NIFTY PINT GLASSES

ZLAANTBOARD

The early season wobbles. If you’re under 35 you may not know what those are, but if you are a little older or have had some serious injuries over the years you will know exactly what we’re talking about. It’s when your ageing meat-bag of a body struggles on the water with things you used to take for granted. Leaping from boulder to boulder in a small stream, keeping your balance on a wobbly rock while executing a cast at rising fish, lowering yourself down into a pool without sending bow waves across it scaring the fish - these simple actions get harder the older we get because of 1) ageing, 2) sedentary lifestyles where we spend too much time sitting on our arses and 3) injuries. That’s where the ingenious Zlaantboard comes in. Conceived by chiropractor Dr Jess Bruins Roberts and Dr Sean Gomes (the man behind Wellness Warehouse), the Zlaant is a strength and recovery tool (beloved by trailrunners and mountain-bikers) designed to get you back out there stronger and more flexible than ever before. From ankles to knees and hips, there’s a vast range of proprioceptive exercises you can do on the board that are designed to work those mysterious stabiliser muscles, improve your flexibility, help you recover from injury and supplement any other training you’re doing. If you put in the time and effort, when river season opens, or that big trip you have been waiting for finally rolls around, you will be in such tip-top shape even your 20-year-old self would be jealous. zlaant.com

DANGLE SUPPLY - TI COBB TITANIUM PIPE

Just to even things out a little on the health front (it’s all about balance, right?), we love the look of these titanium pipes made by Dangle Supply. At 70mm the Ti Cobb is the smallest of the range, perfect for your fishing pack stash. Those with Gandalf or Liewe Heksie ambitions (and more pack space) should check out Dangle Supply’s WizardStix and WitchStix, which feature bigger bowls and much longer pipes to keep things cool and tasty.

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ORVIS - ANGLER’S PINT GLASS

Whether you go for the permit glass (for your yacht moored in the Seychelles), the brown trout (for your cabin in the mountains) or the rainbow (for your for home bar), these nifty 21.5 ounce/ 625ml Orvis pint glasses with full-colour, scientific fish and fly rod illustrations by artist Karen Talbot are perfect for cheersing frothy success or drowning ‘the one that got away’ sorrows. Available in permit, brown trout or rainbow trout iterations at Mavungana Flyfishing. orvis.com, flyfishing.co.za