Totally random video of the Kelvin in spate – lasts around a minute. I was actually out with Atkins looking at all the arbour work that had been done. Lots of pictures to add to the RKAA site.
Category: River Kelvin Fishing
Vice Chairman Perks!
I was thinking the other day about all the perks of being the Vice Chair of the River Kelvin Angling Association – I mean it is a big club with nearly 1000 members, we have a healthy bank balance, we have good trout fishing and great runs of Salmon. You would think there would be…
Ramblings…
Interestingly there has not been the usual crowd of guys fishing the Kelvin this year for Salmon and the word on the street is the fishing for Salmon on the Kelvin has been = “total shite this year” (according to the chap in Dumbarton who owns the food shop and served me my roll n’…
You would be forgiven…
…for thinking that all I appear to do these days is get myself banned from internet forums for making statements about how lovely trout are. However I have actually managed to wet a line – in fact last week twice. Both times were nothing much to write home about and on one occasion I forgot…
Evening Stats…
Stats: Trout Rising: (est) 23 Number of total casts: (est) 150 Number of casts to individual fish: 8 Fly changes: 4 Smallest fly used : size 20 Trout caught : 1 Sweary words: 6 Salmon seen: 1 Call to Alan Atkins to tell him about Salmon: 1 Number of Trootsies spooked: 0 (note: they ignored everything) Random angler met in car…
Comfy Feet on the Kelvin
So Sunday night I decided on a dusk session on the Kelvin – it was another good session with lots of trout caught. No big ones this time – as I walked up the river there was a chap fishing down and across through the pool I wanted to stake out – this meant the…
On the Kelvin just now…
Having a go for salmon!
I had forgotten…
Sometimes you forget something good that is right under your nose – For a few years I fished the same stretch of the Kelvin and got to know every nook and cranny there was to know – it was maybe a mile or so of water. That is in fact a lot of pools, riffles,…
Sunday evening – heading to some old spots on the Kelvin…
I decided to visit some of my older haunts on the river for a nostalgic trip down memory lane Maybe see you there!
It was on my doorstep all along!
So I have been tying up some flees in preparation for some hot evening action. Reluctantly I took the advice (you can substitute advice for pretty much constant ribbing) from pals regarding the size of my flies. You see in the past I fished a place where a big bushy fly was a essential as…