Passed over my shit pipe river today and it looked great – because all the trees have no leaves I can see lots of riffles and runs! Only a week until I can choose not to fish for trout – I will probably fish for pike first. Probably.
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Weekly water photo – 5 of 52
So I drove past shit pipe river yesterday – it was in full spate. Not long to go now before we can catch a trout! You can see the river between the trees! Questio: when does a burn become a river? At what point does your attitude change?
2 trips for trout..
You would be forgiven with thinking that I have done pretty much no fishing over the last couple of weeks – you would in fact be wrong – I have had two trips after trout – one to my small shit pipe stream and one to the Clyde. The Shit Pipe Stream was weird –…
Ran out of nymphs…
So I received a phone call from a pal – he was heading out to my “Shit Pipe” river – meanwhile I am having a night at home as my better half is on night shift – there was a time that having a wife that worked shifts was great – now with a child all…
Busy, busy and more busy..
Busy is an understatement – with both family life and fishing. I have been enjoying looking with wonder at the small things in nature through my sons eyes – we have spotted lots of young frogs over the last week and we always stop to examine them before carefully sending them on their way.. I think…
Cold Bank Holiday Weekend
Apologies to folk who received a rough draft of this post by email. A cold front started to move in over the weekend – the reasonable temps of last week gave way to temps in the single figures Saturday and Sunday – Saturday I went to the Zoo (and ran into Mike from Tamanawis at the Monkeys) however Sunday I…
Nae Comparaduns Left
It was a Wednesday I can tell you that much – because that is my fortnightly non working day. What that means is that while the kids are at school and my wife is at work I can actually go fishing for the day. What this also means is that I kinda need to go…
What fly rod for the Kelvin?
One of the questions that folk ask an awful lot is what weight of fly rod you need to use for the Kelvin. Have I got to explain it? Ok – essentially the weight of a rod is irrelevant – it is the AFTM rating that you have got to look out for. Secretly fly…
Fish 4 Flies
So I am always partial to getting some free stuff in the post however generally the requests I get to review stuff or promote I knock back as they want to retain control of what you write about and usually the stuff is shite anyway. I have had a few folk asking me to write…
Why are all my rivers weirdly white just now?
I had an evening on the Kelvin the other night with the mighty Jim Burns, we both blanked or if we did catch a trout it was nothing to write home about. We fished until dusk and then had a spot of action lasting 20 mins, even though trout were rising we managed to not…