The Urban Fly Fisher

One of the things I like about fishing urban rivers is all the wee nooks and crannies you get to see which are right underneath people’s noses.

Things that people don’t usually get to see just because they are walking along roads instead of underneath them.

This was on the lower Clyde on the very outskirts of [...]

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It was raining during the night and when I left for the river it was still spitting slightly, it was also overcast and possibly a little muggy - I did not feel the east wind which has been plaguing us for a couple of weeks now.
I tried a new spot on the Clyde (on the [...]

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There are two very real reasons why you do not see many pictures of me on my blog. Firstly not many of my pals carry cameras and the ones that do always forget to charge them and secondly I always end up looking like a gimp.

I rest my case.
Still, it is better than a dead [...]

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Looking forward to it I am…

Four full days fishing - two rivers I enjoy fishing….

Leaving in the morning…

Enjoy it I will.

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Can’t keep track of who is moaning the most in the comments section?
I give you the brand new discussion page. This page shows the last 30 most recent comments meaning you can keep track easier the various topics being discussed. To find it easilly it is the last link in the navigation above the header [...]

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I decided to throw caution to the wind and head down to the river instead of pumping iron at the gym. Turns out I made the wrong decision….well, two actually. The first was that I should have gone to the gym, the second was that I have a sneaky suspicion I left to early. To [...]

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So the seasons have decided to totally miss out spring and have just dived straight into summer instead. The day was roasting hot, into the twenties and the Clyde was the venue. I split up from Alex (who caught his obligatory 2lber on the nymph) while I targeted some rising trout on some flat water [...]

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