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…
Month: July 2010
Throwing metal in a ditch..
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…
Trout at Last..
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 –…
Fisherman’s Stories (morphing misinformation into factoids)
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…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11
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Salmon trip – dawn raid (outcome blank)
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…
We have changed conditions!
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…
Tenuous Fishing Photos 26/52
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…