The Urban Fly Fisher

Alistair Stewart’s piscatorial adventures around Glasgow, Scotland

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Entries from May 2004

AAaiiiiaaaaagh a hole in me waders!!!

May 31st, 2004 · 1 Comment · River Kelvin Fishing

AAGRH!!!
My vision “EXTREMES” have a leak in the right stockingfoot….now i know that the kelvin is kinda rough….but TOO EXTREME FOR VISION?????????

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theriverkelvin.co.uk - Welcome !

May 28th, 2004 · No Comments · River Kelvin Fishing

theriverkelvin.co.uk - Welcome !
I got annoyed uploading photos into a folder and then hunting through them to link them to the blog so i have created a photo album to store them. It took me ages today to change all the links…..so APPRECIATE it!!!!
I will allso be storing pictures of my Glasgow wanderings and walks [...]

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Its Low, dangerously low!!

May 26th, 2004 · 1 Comment · River Kelvin Fishing

Yesterday I decided to get the bus along to Partick and fish the West End stretch. The pools along through Kelvinbridge. My right foot was wet the second I put my foot in my waders, I knew that was a bad sign, My feet had been sweating yesterday as it was so hot and hadnt [...]

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Typical!!

May 24th, 2004 · No Comments · Life!, Observations, River Kelvin Fishing

Bloody typical…….I get up early, go out fishing, its not happening, come home, potter about the flat and in the evening when i cant get out it starts getting nice. And what is the script with the weather reports on BBc and teletext anyway, one minute it says rain next minute not…….and then its wrong [...]

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Just one of those days!!

May 24th, 2004 · No Comments · River Kelvin Fishing

Do you ever get one of those days when you just walk aimlessly?
Got up early and walked down to Dawsholm park, at around 8am. No fish rising and for that matter th eriver was very low, down to its bones..

A nice new burnt out car sitting at the bridge, the last one got taken away [...]

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Roasty Toasty!!

May 23rd, 2004 · No Comments · River Kelvin Fishing

Its roasty toasty outsode today, the chances are it i sgoing to stay like that tommorow…….ach well. Anyway ive decided tommorow im going to hit the west end. I was going to go this afternoon but I was up late last night , steaming drunk at a familly barby. So i woke late, need to [...]

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Still windy, and some nice cock capes!!

May 20th, 2004 · No Comments · River Kelvin Fishing

Bought some nice cock capes off of ebay the other day and they arrived today……they look nice, very nice!! 2 light game and 2 furnace. If anyone has any easy peasy patterns I could follow let me know. I went up to the west end today with claires sister. She showed me a little book [...]

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