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Alistair Stewart’s piscatorial adventures around Glasgow, Scotland

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Entries from November 2007

Productive few hours..

November 28th, 2007 · 15 Comments · Pike

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 Angling Centre boss reveals expansion plan

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Links

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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Easy Stove for camping or fishing

November 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Links

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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Review - Fishpond Aussie Clippers

November 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Products n' services, Reviews

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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Fly Colour

November 21st, 2007 · 17 Comments · Pike

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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Four of em’

November 19th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Pike

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.

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Tail Walking Time

November 17th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Pike

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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