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Category: Other River Fishing!!

Another casualty of the 2020 season

11 January, 202111 January, 2021 by Alistair

I spent the winter of 2019 and early months of 2020 looking at maps and fancied a river that appears widely overlooked. I bought my ticket for it when I could – they obviously would not sell me a ticket while the 5 mile limit was in place. I spent a good portion of my…

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Like a Release!

20 June, 20202 January, 2021 by Alistair

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…

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Spain, A Fly Fishing Paradise?

15 February, 20202 January, 2021 by Alistair

Now that Brexit has finally hit us you would think that we do not actually like our friends on the continent. Nothing could be further from the truth especially when they have such good fishing on offer. I was contacted by Adrian over at Pyrenees Fly Fishing and asked if I would write something and…

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Broken Toe

10 July, 2017 by Alistair

Was away for a week to the middle class playground of Centr Parks and was supposed to meet up with Matt from North Country Angler. Unfortunately the only day I could get away was a day that winter appeared to strike with low temps and rain so we decided to cancel. Plus I had somehow…

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“Gorge”eous!

25 June, 201725 June, 2017 by Alistair

I stood next to Paul as he lay on the ground moaning in pain. I am not a big fan of sympathy unless it is really bad (giving and receiving) however sometimes when another man has hurt himself and it will pass in a short while there is nothing you can or should say, even…

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Stocktaking

20 February, 201720 February, 2017 by Alistair

“April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring” Not in this fishers life at the moment – the cruelest month happens to be February as that is the one that happens to come before March. March of course signifying the start of the trout season on…

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Too big for the hand!

19 August, 2015 by Alistair
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Weekenders

5 August, 2015 by Alistair

Okay, I am pretty much resigned to the fact that this season is a total bust! The birth of son number three has hit my evening sessions incredibly heavily due to the other two boys playing merry havoc as it ensures they get to stay up late. Anyway, enough of my parenthood musings and more…

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Micro trout and midge madness

5 July, 2015 by Alistair

Two trips, one to a local burn with work buddy to catch micro trout and one to Highland river to be destroyed by the midge. We fished a few pools as their was a nice amount of water in wee burn. We fished fish about and we had a lot of interest from every pool….

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New net finally christened.

3 June, 2015 by Alistair

It has been slow on my fishing front due to the imminent arrival of my third son as I could not travel very far and now of course he has arrived which causes additional fishing difficulties. If you are a pal on Facebook you will have seen the photos. However, the planets aligned and today…

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