The Urban Fly Fisher

It’s happened, just in the way the rivers rise high in the winter and then low in the summer my thoughts are turning from Pike back to Trout. I am not saying I will be forgetting Pike for the summer - quite the opposite actually I am actually quite looking forward to taking a Pike [...]

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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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So the end of the season is almost upon us, I fished the middle Clyde on Saturday for a few hours - there was plenty of flies on the water but the trout appeared to have other things on their minds.

I caught one trout on the nymph, a lovely trout that was very dark in [...]

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Arrived at the river around 0830, there was a nip in the air although an occasional blast of sunshine heated me up nicely as I walked along the river bank. I met another angler ambling along the bank towards me - we exchanged pleasantries - it turns out he was going to fish bait - [...]

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If that was the Summer I wonder what the Winter will bring - I am already starting to get geared up for Pike. But more of that laster in the Month.
It is a funny old world when you have high expectations about somewhere and they are dashed. Gareth travelled all the way from Wales to [...]

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