The Urban Fly Fisher

Look at em’, all standing to attention like soldiers, like a trained fighting force - the elite! Like the SAS - all ready to attack the rivers full force. Just waiting for their orders although in this case it will be an order to land gently possibly several feet away from a rising trout - [...]

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Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yes, flies and imitations. Well another three handy flies to have at this time of year also cover a variety of insects - and two of them are not dry flies they are emergers.
Remember in part one we were talking about the Large Dark Olive – well these [...]

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Ok, I promised a kelvinator I would post the flies that I regularly use on the Kelvin . I pretty much use these same flies on the other rivers I fish as well. I have decided to split the series into three so watch out for the next sections over the coming weeks.
Anyway, the list [...]

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Neil “Trout Machine” Sinclair is giving a talk along at Milngavie Library tomorrow evening (Thursday 28th February at 7pm). The event is organised by Alberto Laidlaw through the Milngavie Fly Dressers Club.Neil fishes for the Scotland Team (although we don’t hold that against him) and he will be giving away his usual pearls of wisdom [...]

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So tonight I suddenly realised that the season is around 39 days away. I also suddenly realised that all my big talk about tying up plenty of flies for the start of the season was all….well….big talk. Actually, I did start around a few weeks ago and tied up some nymphs but it was a [...]

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Vibrations – that what I need in coloured water to attract those Pike. You see, they have a long lateral line to detect the slightest vibration and once located the prey doesn’t stand a chance. The dorsal fin works in conjunction with the ventral and tail fins to provide the incredible acceleration we love to [...]

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If you have never been to a demo let me tell you a little story - my first tying demo was a few years ago now and was Charles Jardine - I can honestly say my fly fishing knowledge not only increased because of the talk but also because of the people I met that [...]

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