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Month: July 2010

A Troutastic Day Out!

27 July, 2010 by Alistair

I had a day on the big river on Sunday – my pal Emanuele was up from Hull for a long weekend and we arranged to meet up for a day’s fishing – we used to fish this place regularly a few years ago. The day was overcast and warm – at least warm enough…

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Throwing metal in a ditch..

22 July, 2010 by Alistair

If there is an opposite from my last post this is it – the contrasts between catching lovely wee trout on a burn and attempting to catch an Atlantic Salmon on the Kelvin are two extremes. Our intention (last night) was to fish the City stretches for Salmon as it has been pelting down all…

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Trout at Last..

20 July, 2010 by Alistair

All this sea fishing and Salmon fishing has been fun – I am expecting a few more sessions like that before the season is gone. I may well go after Salmon again this week with both the dreaded spinning rod and the fly rod however today I needed to do what I love most –…

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Fisherman’s Stories (morphing misinformation into factoids)

19 July, 2010 by Alistair

This is a post about how stories can grow arm and legs and eventually morph out of all known facts into a completely different scenario. It is akin to someone telling another angler they caught a trout on a dry fly and then eventually the story ending up as being they were attacked by a…

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

11 July, 2010 by Alistair

River has risen .. I might look out the metal work and have a cast for salmon! # Planning a dawn raid on the kelvin for sea beasts! # Up at half four – dawn raid for salmon! # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Salmon trip – dawn raid (outcome blank)

10 July, 201010 July, 2010 by Alistair

It is Saturday evening at around 10pm – it is pouring with rain, like really teaming it down – cats and dog’s rain – if you are reading this in Glasgow and you have not looked out the window it is pissing it doon by the way. I am talking about the rain for two…

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We have changed conditions!

7 July, 20108 July, 2010 by Alistair

I have fished twice over the last week – one was on Saturday evening (before all the rain) and the other was on Tuesday evening just as the rain started. Both sessions were what I can only describe as “pish” – I am glad that you guys do not just come here to read about…

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Tenuous Fishing Photos 26/52

4 July, 2010 by Alistair

We are well past the half way point of my weekly tenuous fishing photos – this week we have a weather photo. It has been months now without rain –  the golfers are having a good summer although even they are saying the greens are starting to look a bit brown. This hot dry weather…

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