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…

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…

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…

A lovely video from You Tube

I don’t often step into the world of politics as this is a fishing blog however here is a story that not many people in the UK know about involving chemical weapons in their back yard so to speak. I look on it as my duty as a blogger to spread the word. This week…

Looks like an interesting magazine on ebay lFly fishing and Fly Tying Mag USA Some of the better magazines are written in the states…..looks like there are two copies left….are you going to get it before me 🙂

So I was browsing around and found this article. This little section caught my eye… Creekmore recalled meeting Kim Il Sung, the leader of North Korea in 1994 and father of the current North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. He reflected that he thought the elder Kim was “quite enlightening” and said that the dictator…