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Month: October 2010

Sunday at the Salmon Ladder…

31 October, 2010 by Alistair

The clocks went back on Saturday night meaning I was up even earlier on Sunday – I was instructed to leave the house with the boy so decided that a trip to the Salmon ladder in Milngavie was in order – let me stop you right there before you get all excited n’ stuff –…

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31

31 October, 2010 by Alistair

Attending a Kelvin committee meeting .. I hope stuffing envelopes is not on the agenda! # Powered by Twitter Tools

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It is actually a nice day ….

30 October, 2010 by Alistair

Some more photos – why not!

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Tenuous fishing photos 43/52

30 October, 201030 October, 2010 by Alistair

The last day of the season is upon us – not the proper trout one – the funky salmon one! Today was kinda planned out a week or so ago – a few pals and I were supposed to go fishing and then retire to a house for some bevy ! As the date got…

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Tenuous fishing photos 42/52

21 October, 2010 by Alistair

Just ten weeks to go until the new year – aye, from these on in it will be an uphill struggle until the new season is upon us! The picture is actually one sent to me by Paul Reid – is is supposed to be used on the official Kelvin site but I have like…

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Tenuous fishing photos 41/52

14 October, 2010 by Alistair

Continuing my (ahem) weekly tenuous fishing photo should actually be a bit easier now that the trout season has finished. Pretty much every photo will be tenuous now! Looking upstream of the bonhill bridge pool on the leven… as you can see – motorcycles can’t do stunts!

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Fly Fishing for Dummies?

12 October, 2010 by Alistair

I hear lots of people complaining they do not know how to fly fish – here is a recent addition to the dummies collection – finally one dedicated to fly fishing. You can click the book to buy from Amazon.

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Saturday Salmon..

10 October, 2010 by Alistair

Long story short I caught feck all and had my picture taken holding a spinning rod – is this what I have been reduced to? I jest – I jest – it was a nice being on the river when ordinarily I would be waiting some 150 days (give or take) before I get another…

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-10

10 October, 2010 by Alistair

Found an awesome snail .. just chilling in the garden … so I brought it into the house! http://twitpic.com/2ubrya # Hey .. my niece found an even smaller one! http://twitpic.com/2ubxln # Looking forward to the new banks novel "surface detail" # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Tenuous fishing photos 34,35,36,37,38, 39 & 40/52

7 October, 20109 October, 2010 by Alistair

How crap am I at keeping to my own schedule of a photo a week? Answers on a postcard… The irony is that people who follow me on Twitter do actually get a photo per week (usually) – so what I should do is just try and combine the two and post the photos from…

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