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Alistair Stewart’s piscatorial adventures around Glasgow, Scotland

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Entries from December 2006

Kamasan b100

December 31st, 2006 · 2 Comments · Fly Tying, Life!

I was visiting the Glasgow Angling Centre the other day with Mike and we got around to discussing hooks as you do when you meet up with any angler in the close season. Discussions in the close season all come around to fishing eventually, usually a lot more in-depth conversations are to be had during [...]

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Happy Christmas, Winterfest etc !

December 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment · River Kelvin Fishing


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Lovely…

December 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Links, River Kelvin Fishing


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Flies for the new season- klinkhammer special….part 1

December 21st, 2006 · 3 Comments · Fly Tying

This time around I do not want to start the season with around 4 trout attacked flies that I need to struggle along with until I can be bothered tying up some more. My idea is that I will build up a little stock of essential flies so that I do not have to panic [...]

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Fishing hats off to the Accidental Angler

December 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Links

Windknotter does a lovely write up on the Accidental Angler
Fishing hats off to the Accidental Angler
You can now buy the book from Amazon

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Five Things You Dont Know About Alistair Stewart

December 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Links

Tom Chandler over at Trout Underground in his business disguise decided to pass me the “Blog Tag” poison chalice where I get to share five things that you probably don’t know about me.
Considering I had a “100 things about me” page up for a year I don’t think there is anything left but for new [...]

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Rain, rain and a bit more rain (with some extas)

December 13th, 2006 · 5 Comments · Life!, Observations, Pike, River Kelvin Fishing

If you do not live in Scotland then I don’t have to tell you the weather has been bad. For my international readers I can tell you the Scotland is stuck with an area of low pressure that is causing wild winds, torrential rain, thunder n lightning (with hailstones) and generally making fishing impossible. When [...]

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