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Category: Coarse

Probably the best fish all year…

27 July, 2016 by Alistair

It was a perch caught surrounded by kids at the Arctic Circle!

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Youthfully Serious

15 November, 2014 by Alistair
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Bad Bandies at Ba

24 July, 2014 by Alistair

If you live in the central belt of Scotland I am pretty sure you have heard the stories about loch Ba! The first that it is stuffed full of bandies that fight like a trout double their size and also that the place is littered with empty crisp packets and buckfast bottles. Any time you…

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3rd time unlucky…

28 August, 2012 by Alistair

As we were walking back to the car I spoke about every reason for why we should have caught some monsters. The Pike were their! I had caught them there at this time in previous years. We had huge flies. I had read some stuff on the Guru McFluffchucker site. You cannot have a third…

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A few days have passed…

19 August, 2012 by Alistair

Well, a few days of interesting life has past since we last spoke. Yesterday I got the Whip out and took the boy to the canal for an hour – I only had the one worm and needless to say I believe the stories I have heard about the declining population of coarse fish down…

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Bought a Whip!

26 July, 201126 July, 2011 by Alistair

So I have been thinking recently about how to get the boy interested in fishing. I have heard far too many stories about how fathers can stuff their hobby down their kid’s throat and thus put them off it totally. I certainly do not want to do that. I suppose there is no real correct or…

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Coarse fish on the fly?

26 July, 2011 by Alistair

I admit I have no experience of this so am about to but this book: (The picture is an amazon affiliate link) You see, there is this huge shoal of roach on the canal that are taunting me every time I walk past – I know they can be caught on the fly as I have read…

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    You will not get better for your money , looking back I received it in 2009 and it still works…

  2. Alistair on JVice – one of my favourite things!21 November, 2024

    I have used it for around 10 years ! Love it !

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    A year or so later, do you still love the jvice? I am considering purchasing one...

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    You did well to get out fishing at all in this weather and to get a trout in those conditions.…

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    I had plenty of evenings fishing the water of leith plus the river Avon , Edinburgh area . Caught a…

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