So tonight is like a replay of last week- I am going to a comedy club and I have plans to go fishing tommorow. This time there will be little alcohol involved and tommorrow a Pike Bonanza! Looking forward to it !
Getting Smashed=No Fishing
So I was supposed to go Pike fishing on Sunday with Alex and Charlie, I was all prepared however a slight overindulgence of alcohol on Saturday evening meant that I was feeling under the weather and had to stay horizontal. Being vertical made me sick. As It was I missed out on what sounds like…
‘I’m not an animal lover’
A great article with David Attenborough over on the guardian website… So why has David Attenborough spent more than 50 years making programmes about the natural world? Decca Aitkenhead talks Steve Irwin, salamanders and climate change with him Check it out He does say some rather nice things about Steve Irwin
Dont bow to the Lords of Tackle
How long do you think your fishing gear should last? Like your rods, reels, waders and boots? I am getting more and more annoyed at the way the tackle industry tries to rip us off and steal (yep steal) our cash. Lets take waders and boots as a classic example. Now, your average waders cost…
Ask me a question, on you go… ask!!
Ok, I am taking questions, this is not because I have ran out of things to write about (honest) but because it is now the close season and it would be nice to know what my punters (you) want to know. Of course you might think I am some kind of expert in angling or…
Pike Flies
After last weeks bonanza I was on the phone making plans to attack the Forth and Clyde canal for Pike. I bought some materials the other day and they have been sitting around just waiting for me to tie up some killing patterns. So last night I decided to tie up some Pike Flies. I…
Times past
We have a long time to wait until we can laze in the sun and have views like this again.
Anglers and drug testing
I cannot believe I missed this one. … TOP championship anglers were left shocked… after being asked to submit to drug tests. Competitors at last week’s World Angling Championships were told to give urine samples or face losing their prizes. Astonishingly, the tests – which they all passed – were made because officials fear stimulants…
The origins of the Kelvin (or The Kelvin Strikes Back)
Dullatur bog Dullatur Bog is the source of the River Kelvin, an important wildlife site… and a headache for the engineer of the Forth & Clyde Canal. Canal engineer John Smeaton believed he could cut the canal through the bog, at the same time filling it with water to prevent it from collapsing. He was…
River Kelvin flood 1994
Anyone in Glasgow mind the great flood of 1994 ?. Over at Hidden Glasgow they have some pretty neat pictures! After days of continuous rainfall that fell over Glasgow in the early part of December 1994 the Glasgow Central Low Level Railway was about to be engulfed by thousands of gallons of water that poured…