The Urban Fly Fisher

Mixed results as the season draws to a close. I have had several sessions on my other favourite river, two at the local canal for Pike and one down the Kelvin.
I met Mike down at my other river for a few hours, the river was slightly high and the colour of tea but did not [...]

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I love getting sent books by authors; it gives me a warm fuzzy glow inside that someone actually might value what I say about their writings. Writers sending bloggers books to review is quite a new thing and I have got to admit it is a perk I quite like. However I have been dreading [...]

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What is it about fly fishing that makes people want to write poetry?
Go check out friend Mikes site! 

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So the end of the season is almost upon us, I fished the middle Clyde on Saturday for a few hours - there was plenty of flies on the water but the trout appeared to have other things on their minds.

I caught one trout on the nymph, a lovely trout that was very dark in [...]

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Ozarks Angler writes about a review he wrote for a William Joseph bag he bought a couple of years ago.
Very Interesting article - makes you wonder just how much testing the William Joseph company actually did?

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Someone asked me to elaborate on the conversation I had with the farmer regarding the cows drooling on my car.
I am not a big fan of cows; I don’t trust anything which looks as if it could trample you to death. Sure, I am told they are docile but I don’t want to be that [...]

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Arrived at the river around 0830, there was a nip in the air although an occasional blast of sunshine heated me up nicely as I walked along the river bank. I met another angler ambling along the bank towards me - we exchanged pleasantries - it turns out he was going to fish bait - [...]

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