The Urban Fly Fisher

Well, Its only one week left until the end of the season…the trout season that is. Im trying to decide whether I should move my efforts to sea trout and salmon..only the next month will say i suppose.
Ive got some ideas for the web site, i was thinking of changing the colour scheme and [...]

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Great, managed to give that Gibson Street stretch a go today. It was pouring down with rain and i didnt manage to get some pictures …..well any good pictures anyway.
I started a good bit behind this ….

and this is looking upstream

To be honest, i pretty much know that within the first hour whether I [...]

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Bah !!I might have known, its been raining a fair bit so im not going to go down to the river untl later on, possibly it may have started to clear by then.I managed to track someone down that was tying those Clyde Style flies so with a bit of luck they will arrive within [...]

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I might have known, as soon as i made my last post it started to rain…….Ill check the agency site again in the morning but im not holding out much luck…..the only good thing is that ,,,,,lovely Claire is off and i will be able to talk her into giving me a lift..
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Well, I went down to that stretch at Gibson Street again……here is a photo of the bridge…

Now this is where I was told there was some good fishing…….I walked up the river a little….
Now is it just me or does that little run just look simply lovely. Anyway, I was getting quite exited about going [...]

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I stopped off at the bridge on Gibson Street yesterday , as the guy that I had spoke to the other night had said that there was a few good fish sitting underneath it. I can imagine there is. It is a lovely looking piece of water , deep with an amazing glide. Pretty inaccessible [...]

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I loathe going into angling shops.
Whenever I can I buy my stuff online although today I went into the “Glasgow angling centre”.
It was horrible, like a fishing stuff tesco. The people behind the counter are not very friendly and when I tried to start a conversation the guy just looked at me.
Possibly its [...]

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