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…
On the kelvin …
On the kelvin just now .. it is a lovely height but is a little brown .. anyone joining me?
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
Hunting invasive plants on the kelvin today … we have maps! # Groups walked the length of the kelvin system identifying invasive species http://twitgoo.com/1fgryd # It would have been easier marking where we found none! http://twitgoo.com/1fgs21 # Having a picnic at loch Lomond!http://twitgoo.com/1gm4qo # We have a huge flying ant hatch ! They are even…
Having a picnic at loch Lomond!
Family time by the Loch – strictly no fishing!
Tenuous Fishing Photos 27,28,29/52
Ok – I have totally lost my way with my weekly pictures due to shitty non fishing stuff sucking up my time however I will provide a crazy three in one post and then another two later in the week which should bring me back on track. For those that do not know I am providing a…
A Troutastic Day Out!
I had a day on the big river on Sunday – my pal Emanuele was up from Hull for a long weekend and we arranged to meet up for a day’s fishing – we used to fish this place regularly a few years ago. The day was overcast and warm – at least warm enough…
Throwing metal in a ditch..
If there is an opposite from my last post this is it – the contrasts between catching lovely wee trout on a burn and attempting to catch an Atlantic Salmon on the Kelvin are two extremes. Our intention (last night) was to fish the City stretches for Salmon as it has been pelting down all…
Trout at Last..
All this sea fishing and Salmon fishing has been fun – I am expecting a few more sessions like that before the season is gone. I may well go after Salmon again this week with both the dreaded spinning rod and the fly rod however today I needed to do what I love most –…
Fisherman’s Stories (morphing misinformation into factoids)
This is a post about how stories can grow arm and legs and eventually morph out of all known facts into a completely different scenario. It is akin to someone telling another angler they caught a trout on a dry fly and then eventually the story ending up as being they were attacked by a…