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Paul Dewar – Team Captain

Paul Dewar has spent most of his life in Levin where he was first introduced to trout fishing at 15 when he went fishing on the Manawatu River with friends of his father using a hand line, landing a lovely 5 pound brown setting the scene for the future.

Paul is a hydraulic engineer with his own company and is married to Janice and has two children. The only one that shows any interest in trout fishing is his daughter Wendy who sometimes accompanies dad on local expeditions. Paul is also Chairman of Fish & Game for the Wellington region.

Trout fishing took a back seat for a lot of years as Paul went motor racing, firstly doing motor cross and then track racing and rallying, Speedway was next, racing sprint cars and super modified where he climbed to the top of the sport winning the New Zealand title.

Most were astonished when he gave up the high speed rough and tumble of sprint cars to take up the genteel sport of fly-fishing. He joined the Manawatu Fresh Water Anglers club and spent his first few years fishing the Manawatu region with the occasional club trip away.

In 2004 Paul was selected to be the captain for the NZ Fly Fishing team to compete in the World Championships in Slovakia and the Commonwealth Champs in Scotland. The team finished a credible 11th place, fishing mainly for grayling a species that they had little or no experience with.
Paul was again captain of the New Zealand team at the world champs in Portugal 2006 as well as guiding the team to two gold medal wins in the Oceania champs, 2005 in the Rotorua region and 2007 when the NZ team won in Tasmania beating Australia on their home patch.