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I do believe Tea Stick Rods were there as well!

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Fishing Fly Stuck in Eye
I am pretty sure most people have seen this link by now, a reason why people shoudl ensure they wear some kind of eye protection.
The fly looks like a Pheasant Tail Nymph, which reminds me that I should rie up some for next season!

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The Fly Tying night is starting up again…the venue is:: the Yarrow Club at 223 Anniesland Road, Glasgow G13 1RP. The night will be a Wednesday and it starts on the 5th October at 6.30pm.
I will be there, unless it stops raining, in which case I will be fishing….and then wander in late!

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Rain…

Rain….

and even more pissing rain…

Just goes to show that you can in fact get too much of a good thing. The river is like hot chocolate (although cold) and looks to stay like that untill the brown trout season ends. If we have two days respite one of the tributories may be fishable….we shall see!!!

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A couple of weeks left trout fishing, the weather has grown cold and I will be starting a new job shortly as well. I would like to say that I will be fishing every day until the season closes but I doubt it as wedding plans are being made (and seemingly I have to do [...]

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Press Release

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE USE – 23rd SEPTEMBR 2005
Bogus report from Scottish Environment Protection Agency
More than 300,000 diseased salmon from Marine Harvest Limited fish farms in the Western Isles have been buried in the machair (gobally important shell-sand dunes and fields) at Kyles-paible near Bayhead on the Island of North Uist. Marine Harvest continues [...]

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Or rather I have been for the last few days. It started with a sore throat and has gradually progressed to full on feeling lousy. No fishing being done, but plenty of watching Star Wars!

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