The Urban Fly Fisher

So I spent ages last night making a fly - it was made entirely out of calf tail and looked great. I used some lead to help it to sink - I was looking forward to giving it a bash today - as it was the damn thing floated rendering it useless - you live [...]

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Glasgow Herald - interview with Paul Devlin, the owner of the Glasgow Angling Centre talks about his expansion plans - buys flies for 5p and sells them for 60p - now that is what I call a profit!
Read the full article here!
EDIT: Oh - here is the Fly Fishing Forums take on the article

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If you are too stingy to buy a kelly kettle you may like these instructions. You only need an empty tin of soup and some tin cutters…
Wood Burning Trail Stove

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These little clippers were great - electric blue, small (ish) they fitted on my lanyard perfectly and cut through mono very easily - I tried them with 20lb mono and they cut through it with ease. I would expect so to for £7.
I wanted a new pair of nippers as my old ones ……ach OK [...]

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I was reading a thread about fly colour over at Shallow Fish about fly colour and whether it really maters or not. The general opinion is that it does not - at least that is my opinion anyway when it relates to Pike. I left a comment agreeing with another reader that I suspected movement [...]

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Ok, Saturday was pretty awesome as I caught that big Pike that I don’t have a picture of unfortunately – however Sunday was just as awesome as I caught 4 (landed 2) - if they were all put together and then doubled, the new pike would be still half the size of yesterdays.

Anyway, lots of [...]

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I decided to have a morning off of thinking about essay stuff and headed out for a couple of hours down the canal for Pike again. As usual, the weather all week has been fine – nice temps, no wind and generally good for the fly, however today the forecast was for rain and gales. [...]

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