The Urban Fly Fisher

Alistair Stewart’s piscatorial adventures around Glasgow, Scotland

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Entries from June 2006

Sizzling…….nah Brrrrrrrr.

June 27th, 2006 · 3 Comments · River Kelvin Fishing

So it had been a roasting hot day. My wife and I had a hectic day rushing about; it got to around 8pm so I decided to go fishing. Alas as soon as I went out the door I could tell there was something a little different in the air, it was a lot colder. [...]

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Sedgetastico

June 25th, 2006 · 19 Comments · Other River Fishing!!

So Emmanuelle and I met Mike and Steve on our other river for a spot of evening action from around 6pm onwards.

We got off to a slow start with only a couple of smaller trout caught, however Steve powered ahead picking up trout consistently on a deer hair Sedge.
Emmanuelle caught this corker of a brown [...]

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Tattered Fly

June 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Links

Tattered Fly has went through a relaunch with a diffierent layout. Lovely site and quotes me for his inspiration.
usually I just inspire people to the booze bottle so that is a plus

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Greetings new readers!

June 22nd, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life!, Links, River Kelvin Fishing

Greetings, people who have just read The Herald. I have not actually read the article regarding the Kelvin yet but just in case I came across like a trumpet I thought I would post this first.
Anyway,some background, I have been fly fishing on the Kelvin for a number of years now and call it my [...]

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Flaming June ? Aye right enough !

June 21st, 2006 · No Comments · Life!

Ah yes, Scottish weather, one minute it is roasting hot and the next it feels like it could snow. You know what they say, if you don’t like the weather stick around 5 mins it will be sure to change…

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A nice bit….

June 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Products n' services, Top Tips

A nice piece of music to tie flies by….

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Attack of the Fibre Optic Cables !!

June 18th, 2006 · 5 Comments · River Kelvin Fishing

So I fished for a few hours yesterday and caught nothing. I am beginning to think that the easy to get to sections of the river are gubbed, then again it might have been the conditions. I caught lots of those Sea Trout that were stocked, tiny little two inch long silvers but that was [...]

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