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Month: June 2009

From the urban – to the not so!

28 June, 200930 June, 2009 by Alistair

It is sometimes easy to see why some people think the Kelvin is not an urban river – especially from the pictures that I post on this site. You see – there is a green corridor that cuts through Glasgow and down this passageway the Kelvin runs – the corridor has its own compliment of…

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Friends of the River Kelvin – Gala Day Video

24 June, 200920 January, 2010 by Alistair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxRpxwag71w

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Total Respect!

18 June, 2009 by Alistair

I headed out with fishing buddy Alan Atkins for an evening session on Tuesday night – the conditions looked perfect: overcast, warm and flies on the water – sure the river was low however this exposed a lot of pocket water where I suspected the trout would be sitting. As it was it was strange…

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JVice Review – Hot Rotary Action!

15 June, 20093 January, 2021 by Alistair

It was a couple of seasons ago that on a long trip with some pals I watched Mike (Tamanawis) scramble around looking for a piece of wood for his vice – he needed to tie some flies for the session. There has got to be a better way of doing that I thought – especially…

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A post about fishing related “stuff”

14 June, 2009 by Alistair

You would be forgiven for thinking I have not done any fishing at all over the last week – as it is I have been chasing Pike on the Forth n’ Clyde canal and attempting evening sessions on the Kelvin – both did not amount to much mainly because I was half pished merry from…

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Sexy Polaroids

13 June, 200913 June, 2009 by Alistair

So I needed a new pair of Polaroid’s – in fact I needed two pairs – a pair with light lenses for low light conditions and a pair with dark lenses for…..you guessed it, bright light conditions. Usually I would just head off to my local boots and try and find a pair that will…

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Conditions good? = wrong!!

8 June, 2009 by Alistair

Decided on fishing the Kelvins big sister/brother as a pass was given at the last minute – it looked like it was going to be good conditions – overcast and windy – so where did it all go wrong? Well for a start it was cold, and a north easterly wind pushed an area of…

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Urban Fly Ventures

6 June, 2009 by Alistair

Another urban blog flits across my radar – Urban Fly Ventures Go check that bad boy out !

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Stream Thought

6 June, 2009 by Alistair

I was  flicking through “Stream Thought” after the writer/photographer posted a comment here and noticed he had posted a a gem of a find ! It is a quote from a book on Sea Trout fishing: “Brown trout give themselves up to those with skill and salmon to those with money but the sea trout…

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The dusk that never was…

3 June, 2009 by Alistair

I am all  Topsy Turvy here – by this point I am usually fishing most evenings and have really got into the swing of things – instead I am having to pick and choose my fishing opportunities based on experience and knowledge – unfortunately the trout (and pike – see last post) have decided to mix…

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  1. Alistair on JVice – one of my favourite things!21 November, 2024

    You will not get better for your money , looking back I received it in 2009 and it still works…

  2. Alistair on JVice – one of my favourite things!21 November, 2024

    I have used it for around 10 years ! Love it !

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    A year or so later, do you still love the jvice? I am considering purchasing one...

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    You did well to get out fishing at all in this weather and to get a trout in those conditions.…

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    I had plenty of evenings fishing the water of leith plus the river Avon , Edinburgh area . Caught a…

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