Walked through the Botanics – did not get near the river. Tell you something though it was only at around half four the temps started to rise to a measly 12 degrees. These are the only fish I seen today.
Check!
Spring Sun – Check! Decorating chores partly complete – Check! Water at a good height – Check! A full fly box – Check! Non leaky waders – Check Bank covered in empty cider bottles carried their in blue plastic bags – Check! Regaled with stories of monster hatches of olives – Check! Meet a guy…
Weekly water photo – 14 of 52
Where am I?
Weekly water photo – 13 of 52
Took the boy out for a walk beside the Kelvin – he insisted on carrying a net!
Spring Pike!
Firstly to the gent in the boat who I possibly destroyed his last ten minutes of fishing by attempting to sidle past his bobbing float – a apologise profusely. Why am I doing it here? Because I think the gent may be a reader – after I shouted an apology he called me by my name – it was only later…
Fish Kelvin Forum Gubbed + Virus Warning
(This is actually a post on the forum however I thought I would copy it as a post just in case) This is not going well – Ok – Paul K got in contact a while ago to say his Norton was playing up – saying that he got a warning when he tried…
Weekly water photo – 12 of 52
A picture of the forth and clyde canal just before clydebank – this whole stretch seems pretty grim. I wonder if there are any pike kicking around!
Camo Beret – Cool as fu….
You wear a camouflage beret while you are fishing then you are as cool as Top Cat in my book. (pic is an affiliate link to Amazon) I am going to add one of these bad boys to my Amazon wishlist for my birthday next month. Tell you what else is happening in a couple of…
Weekly water photo – 11 of 52
Ok – so the race is on to actually see a rising trout. Last year the first trout I seen rising was this wee burn running through Dalmuir.
Congratulations – you made it!
Yay – you made it to another season – today is the first day of the 2011 trout season. Congratulations on making it this far – we all deserve a great big round of applause for fighting through yet another thoroughly miserable winter. From this moment on instead of being totally unable to legally fish…