Managed an evening session after work on the Kelvin – a lovely warm evening with good temps right up until the bats were on the water. River is low however still plenty of trout taking off the surface. I was surprised that the colour of the water is quite dirty looking and not that clear….
Category: Observations
Early Season Flies – Part Two
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…
Get the wallets oot, it is the new season!
A week or so ago I posted over on the facebook page about how I wondered what the hell a bluetooth nano fly rod was all about? This happened because the Sportfish catalogue fell through the door and I took great delight in flicking through it at the stuff that I didn’t need. I am…
It’s all kicking off on the twitter with the Glasgow Angling Centre
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…
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…
Thanks to Yorkshire Water!
There has actually been many benefits to us anglers thanks to Europe – lots of improvements have been thanks to various European Directives and our improving water quality across our rivers is fantastic for trout and salmon. However in collaboration with Yorkshire Water I am able to reveal some exciting news about the Little River…
January Springwatch
Never let it be said I am not an optimist however I was playing in the garden with the boys today and experienced two signs of Spring. My youngest called me over to the first. I had to peer through my Winter fog brain however I noticed some more sprouting up elsewhere in the garden….
Different strokes
I have been laying off encouraging the oldest boy coming fishing with me. I have pals with kids in their twenties who do not fish and I always wonder why. Their dads (my pals) tell me they encouraged them when younger however they just drifted away from it. I wonder if they encouraged them too…