It must be difficult for the Glasgow Angling Centre right now trying to choose a fish of the week as folks angling has been curtailed in a major way. You can tell this because after a recent choice of a well squeezed grayling was chosen legendary fisher,writer and fly tyer Matt Eastham called them out…
Category: Current Events
The stuff you come across…
Cowal Blunders & other havoc
After a blunder on the cowal peninsula in which I decided to not take any fishing gear with me on a day trip with the family despite being near some lovely rocks at high tide I was gagging for some action when I got home. I am on a week’s annual leave and the wife…
Like a Release!
Pretty much as soon as we were able to, I went fishing! During the whole lockdown my life pretty much did not change, it only got around 10 times harder. The family got up in the morning, got dressed – my wife went to work in the hospital and I dropped the kids off at…
Something I posted over at the Kelvin Fisher’s facebook page.
Hiya, I have been fishing the Kelvin now for over twenty years and writing about fishing it over at urbanflyfisher.com for the majority of that time. I was the main drive towards “social media”for the Kelvin – some of you can remember the infamous Kelvin Forum wars we had and some of the characters we…
This is totally shite!
What feels like an age ago and was in fact only a month or so ago life was fairly normal. Ever the optimist I was filling my trout box and sorting out my loch gear – I had tied a lot of fun wee spiky things and also collected loads of nymphs which were sure…
Stay at home
Treat people like they’re all infected with some virus that’s going to kill you and we’ll be over this in no time.
Kaboom – 2020 Trout Season
I have been busying away at the vice tying up wee spiky things and have also been sorting out my gear. Thanfully river trout fishing tends to lend itself to isolation so at least we have got that going for us!
Happy Ne…..SLAP
“Greys warranty sucks”
Sitting on the train my phone rings, unknown number. I pick up. “Is that Alistair?” said a very polite voice. “Yes” “I got your number from a pal, I wanted to tell you something” “Yes?” “Greys warranty still sucks” he said and then hung up! True story.