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Blog Awards: The Shortlists

Good grief, it seems I have been short listed in the Sports category for the Metro blog awards.

I have been eyeing up the contenders in the category and it seems I have some pretty stiff competition.

Next steps:

Now our panel of celebrity judges â€“ including England cricketer Alastair Cook, TV presenter [...]

April 1st gag on FlyFish Magazine ?

Hang on a moment – I was re-reading my favourite blogs and came across this post on the most excellent FlyFish MagazineÂ Â Classic !

I notice that no other bloggers in my little genre decided to try and pull the wool over anyones eyes, I did not even blog but waited until the next [...]

The Complete Fisher

I see The Complete Fisher has had a new front end making it into a hub rather than simply a forum.

Looks nice

I always like finding fly fishing sites to do with the rivers off the River Clyde. When I started Urban Fly Fishing on the Kelvin all those years ago i was very lonely all by myself- now a quick run through gives us this little list..

Urban Fly Fishing on the Kelvin – sister site [...]

Original Genuine Chadwicks 477

Â There is some original genuine chadwicks 477 wool on ebay. This is the wool that is used to make Sawyer’s Killer Bug which is a simple maggot-like pattern, yet seemingly for those that can get a hold of this wool it lives up to its name “Killer Bug” every season.

Sawyer said, “The successful [...]

‘Best of Brit Blog Awards’

I recieved an email today telling me I have been nominated in the ‘Best of Brit Blog Awards’ in the Sports section.

‘The Best of Brit Blog Awards 2007™(BOBBs) launched on the 22nd February to find and reward the UKs most talented writers on the blogosphere. Ask.com, one of the UKs leading internet search engines, [...]

The Fly Line of Many Colors

Opax has gone all cosmic on us.

Fish Wild – April 2007 Online

The April edition of Fish Wild is now online.

I particulary like Mike Connors article on what makes somebody an angler.

What many people completely fail to understand is that the number or size of fish is basically irrelevant to a true angler. Indeed, a true angler will quite happily spend hours trying to catch [...]

A View From the Bridge – Moored?

Tom Jervis over at A View From the Bridge is calling it a day due to ship based work being commercially sensitive . Tom’s writing and most excellent sense of humour has kept me amused for a good few years now.

I will return with a different format at a later date so for the [...]

Ari T Hart – for those that can afford them ?

Now, I quite like a bit of angling jewelry but this I think just goes that wee step over the line into sheer extravagance.These reels are hand carved from space age material and the website states “for those that can afford them” without giving an actual price.

I pretty much know I cannot [...]