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 [...] 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 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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 [...] Reader numbers have jumped in the last month or so – due I reckon to the end of the season madness and more of the UK folk getting a little stir crazy so I thought I would tell you the few ways you can actually get the content of this blog: You can [...] Hmmm, obsession. Scott shows us how it is done by sending this photo of a rather nice looking Pike. It fell to a roach deadbait and muses that it would be a lot of fun if caught on a fly rod… I bet you it would ! It reminds me of [...] I have lots of work to do – I have one essay due in around 2 weeks and even though I have a good plan guess what am I thinking about constantly? Yup – Pike slamming into my horrors down on the canal. I think about it when driving, when falling asleep, in meetings, at [...] |
 
 
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