The plan was to use some of my new flies down in the salt for Sea Trout. This is mainly because due to the current restrictions I am unable to get to any actual rivers to cast a fly. As much as there are many advantages of being equidistant to so many rivers I am…
March 15th fast approaching!
I used to take the day off on March the 15th to get out and do some trout fishing after the long winter. Then I realised that there was not much point as the “real” action actually started at the start of April – the first two weeks of the brown trout season was just…
Even more zooming fly fishing – this time it is fly tying !
Everything is on the Zoom these days – I have a weekly zoom quizz with the extended family as none of us can meet in person (like everyone else). I am part of Scouts and we are planning online meetings. I had a meeting not that long ago with the Kelvin committee which was online…
Zooming Fly Fishing
Anyway, so i was sitting on my sofa on Thursay night minding my own business watching a bit of telly when my mobile telephone rang – “Alberto Laidlaw” it said on the screen. Alberto is about the closest I get to angling legends apart from Paul Young and Kenny Sichi. Here he is wearing a…
Another casualty of the 2020 season
I spent the winter of 2019 and early months of 2020 looking at maps and fancied a river that appears widely overlooked. I bought my ticket for it when I could – they obviously would not sell me a ticket while the 5 mile limit was in place. I spent a good portion of my…
It’s all kicking off on the twitter with the Glasgow Angling Centre
It must be difficult for the Glasgow Angling Centre right now trying to choose a fish of the week as folks angling has been curtailed in a major way. You can tell this because after a recent choice of a well squeezed grayling was chosen legendary fisher,writer and fly tyer Matt Eastham called them out…
Keep going!
One foot in front of the other is all it takes when you go hill walking. Something good about the “lockdown” was the fact that outside the times that the hills were absolutely hoaching with folk the more popular hills were empty for some reason. I chose a weekday and took a couple of novices…
Many angling clubs AGM’s cancelled.
Well, it looks like many of the angling clubs have been forced to cancel their AGM’s due to the current pandemic. I cannot say that I am surprised as I have had a flurry of emails from my kids activity clubs all holding their AGM’s online this year. Obviously this means that for the local…
Time to think about “Matching the Hatch”
Feel like some folk are talking a foreign language when they are talking about insects? Do you want to look cool because you can tell the difference between a Large Dark Olive and a Blue Winged Olive? For those of us that are starting to think about a little entomology now is the time to…
Winter Isolation and Hibernation.
To my utter shame I have never been a big fan of winter fishing. There is something about winter that forces me to have some down time – maybe it is the cold or the limited opportunities however some switch off time to think about other stuff is needed. Over the last few years facebook…