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Month: January 2013

Chapman Bag Review

30 January, 20134 February, 2013 by Alistair

“Have you been treating yourself to a new bag for work?” said light of my life/wife as I opened a rather nice parcel from Chapman bags. I explained that it was a bag for review as my previous tatty old sack that I usually used for fishing was making me the subject of ridicule in…

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River Kelvin Angling Association 2013 AGM

17 January, 2013 by Alistair

It is that time of year again – the finer points of urban river management will be discussed, the accounts will be scrutinized and suggestions made about how the association shall make more money for the urban rehab plan.  People volunteering for roles and odd jobs… Just kidding! It is the River Kelvin Angling Association AGM!…

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Sometimes even the ….

11 January, 2013 by Alistair
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A useful book for you (UK Guide)

10 January, 2013 by Alistair

A pal showed me a copy of this book the other day and it looks great. Good pictures and ideal for the fly angler who wants to brush up on their types of olives and Sedge. The picture is a link to Amazon of which I am an affiliate. [amazon_image id=”1906122202″ link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”large” ]Pocket…

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Milngavie Fly Dressers Spring Program

9 January, 2013 by Alistair

The Milngavie Fly Dressers Spring Program is now available here. The 7th of February is looking pretty good as Craig MacAdam of the Riverfly Partnership will be giving a talk. This year a survey is being carried out on the Kelvin (Willie Yeomans has drafted me in as seemingly we can collect samples as we fish)…

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2013 Resolutions Required ..I guess!

7 January, 20137 January, 2013 by Alistair

I suppose I need to write some kind of 2013 resolution post as all the cool kids are doing them these days. So what I should really do is look at last year and what I did poorly and then look at this year and see what I can do better. Quite frankly I was…

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Save Millport’s Marine Biology Station

6 January, 2013 by Alistair

Anyway, Willie Yeomans was on the text tonight going on about Millport – he was going on about some “Save Millport” campaign. I did not have a bloody scooby what he was on about and I told him that I could probably find better circles to cycle in however he got all mouthy about it so…

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Strangest photo on Urban Fly Fisher of 2012 is…

4 January, 2013 by Alistair
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At 12.27 I realised…

1 January, 20131 January, 2013 by Alistair

Oh God, I haven't caught a trout all year ! — The Urban Fly Fisher (@Urbanfisher) January 1, 2013

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