My head was pounding as I had only around a few hours sleep and was threatening to turn into a migraine – that happens when I go into sleep debt. However if I wanted the car I had to drop the wife off at her work. I wore my nightwear in the car for that extra…
What a weekend!
It has been pretty much non stop fishing from early Saturday morning until now – Sunday late afternoon. Saturday We had a crazy plan to try and catch 4 species – Pike, Trout, Sea Trout and Mackerel. It turned out we enjoyed fishing for the trout just a little too much and so missed out…
Parr a Plenty and then BANG
The water is warmer than the air – I kept telling myself that as I was catching juvenile trout and parr aplenty on the Kelvin. I knew there was big trout here – I had seen them in the past and a recent conversation with someone had made me decide to try this spot for…
Hit or Miss…..verdict = Miss
Not sure what happened today – fished the Clyde with little success. It was warm, overcast and little wind. There were several types of flies hatching, Yellow Mays, A large type olive and then this tiny little olive. I still managed to winkle out a few trout – this one came to a dry… And…
Muddy Water
I got to the Kelvin around 5pm. I thought the rain we had would have freshened the river up a bit. I had noticed on the SEPA site it had risen a few inches. It was the colour of mud…perfect I thought; I love it like this… Wait, no – I hate it like this…
I loathe the saying “tight lines”
I loathe the saying “tight lines” – I can remember when people started using it (or possibly when I first noticed it) and I try and avoid it as much as possible. To me it just seems twee or maybe just a wee bit cheesy. Somehow it always makes me feel slightly uncomfortable – a bit…
Alternative Views…
Mike writes a lovely post about our recent trip up North.
Gems..
Lots of rising trout, steady hatches of olive uprights from the moment I got there until I left and crawling around on all fours for almost two hours was just the thing I was needing after a week of hellishly bad illness – blew the old cobwebs away. Left me absolutely shattered and home by…
Fishing Urban Rivers
One of the things I like about fishing urban rivers is all the wee nooks and crannies you get to see which are right underneath people’s noses. Things that people don’t usually get to see just because they are walking along roads instead of underneath them. This was on the lower Clyde on the very…
Slow Bank Holiday?
It was raining during the night and when I left for the river it was still spitting slightly, it was also overcast and possibly a little muggy – I did not feel the east wind which has been plaguing us for a couple of weeks now. I tried a new spot on the Clyde (on…