The Urban Fly Fisher

Alistair Stewart’s piscatorial adventures around Glasgow, Scotland

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The Brack

April 13th, 2007 · No Comments · A spot of Hiking perhaps!!

Seeing as how it was such a nice day weather wise, my wife and I decided to choose a walk out of the Pathfinder book we had bought last year.

The walks are split up into three sections - easy, medium and hard. I chose one of the hard ones a 10 mile walk [...]

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16 days

February 27th, 2007 · 10 Comments · A spot of Hiking perhaps!!, Life!, Observations, River Kelvin Fishing

16 Days to go and the broonie season will be upon us.
I mind it was like this last year …..and then suddenly we get snow.

I hope its not the same this year !
[tags]snow,spring,glasgow [/tags]

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Lake District

August 10th, 2006 · No Comments · A spot of Hiking perhaps!!

Greetings, I have done very little fishing so I have not had the time to update the blog. I have been away in the Lake District doing a spot of walking and hiking. We stayed at a reasonable campsite called Scotgate and did a few interesting walks around Keswick and beyond. Lots of lovely walks [...]

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A bit of a walk up Beinn Dubh

June 4th, 2006 · 2 Comments · A spot of Hiking perhaps!!

A bit of a walk is an understatement actually.
As yesterday was for lots of food and drink as it was barbeque weather (no fishing as it was to hot) and today it was time to work a bit of that excess off with a bit of hill walking. We decided to tackle Beinn Dubh and [...]

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A Walk in the Snow!

March 12th, 2006 · No Comments · A spot of Hiking perhaps!!, Life!, River Kelvin Fishing

Will I be fishing on opening day? Well considering Claire and I went for a walk along the banks of the Kelvin and we took a Sled I can with good confidence say no.

Most enjoyable though, never seen the Kelvin in snow before!

And here is where I will most probably cast my first fly on [...]

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February Reconnaissance (disguised as a “romantic walk darling” Classy move!!)

February 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments · A spot of Hiking perhaps!!, Life!, River Kelvin Fishing

I was trying to work out why I have had such a massive jump in visitors to the main Kelvin website and to here over the weekend. Usually visitor numbers dip sat/sun as people are not at work browsing the net catching up on the fishing gossip.
I then noticed that the infamous “Trout n About” [...]

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Spot the tent

June 14th, 2005 · 3 Comments · A spot of Hiking perhaps!!

the first person to spot the tent gets a magical suprise prize.

you get to buy me a bottle of Gin!

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