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Month: February 2008

A little something for the weekend sir?

29 February, 2008 by Alistair

I am not a fan of posting two YouTube videos in a row however I thought this might be worthwhile….

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Orvis Helios on You Tube

27 February, 2008 by Alistair
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Neil “Trout Machine” Sinclair – Thur 28th Feb at Milngavie Library

27 February, 200827 February, 2008 by Alistair

Neil “Trout Machine” Sinclair is giving a talk along at Milngavie Library tomorrow evening (Thursday 28th February at 7pm). The event is organised by Alberto Laidlaw through the Milngavie Fly Dressers Club.Neil fishes for the Scotland Team (although we don’t hold that against him) and he will be giving away his usual pearls of wisdom…

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It’s not supposed to make sense – it was a dream !

25 February, 2008 by Alistair

I had a weird dream last night. I dreamt I turned up at a favourite spot on a river and there was a tackle shop on the edge of the stream, not a dingy one but one that was full of important looking people in Orvis and Sage shirts – people that looked like they…

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Another…

16 February, 2008 by Alistair

…another winter nearly over, another half dozen balloon caddis tied, another weekend earning brownie points by not going fishing, another 28 days until the brown trout season starts, another blank fly fishing for Pike last weekend (reckon its too cold), another dozen comparaduns tied, another trip into town to gaze at the new camera I…

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Tying Time…

5 February, 2008 by Alistair

So tonight I suddenly realised that the season is around 39 days away. I also suddenly realised that all my big talk about tying up plenty of flies for the start of the season was all….well….big talk. Actually, I did start around a few weeks ago and tied up some nymphs but it was a…

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Flutterby High

1 February, 20088 March, 2008 by Alistair

Dark miserable January. The days are short and the nights are long. This morning going into work felt like the longest away I will ever be from a nice warm summer day casting a dry fly to a rising trout. Even the Pike are not playing ball at the moment. After doing a lot of…

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