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Commercialisation of fly fishing, guides and discarded blogs!

1 January, 2015 by Alistair

I thought I would have a gander around at the state of the UK fly fishing blog scene seeing as how the forerunner of US blogs “The Trout Underground” has now packed it in. It makes me all nostalgic for the past, about all the blogs that I have seen come and go over the…

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Peeing in waders?

19 September, 201219 September, 2012 by Alistair

Jeffrey Priest over at Taunted by Waters was talking about how once an angler gets to a certain age having good access (like a zip) in the front of waders can be handy as you need to go for a pee quickly. Getting to the riverbank, taking off your vest, taking down your waders, opening your…

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Shock Expose:Hardy used subliminal sex messages in its adverts!

29 August, 201230 August, 2012 by Alistair

(I wrote this post back in February 2011 – I have no idea whether they still use sex to sell fly fishing gear #grin#) Oh Hardy – you used to be all butlers and stupidly expensive reels – where did it all go horribly wrong? So I got home from a hard day of shopping…

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Does Hardy’s brand suck?

2 February, 20108 January, 2021 by Alistair

You know – a thought struck me the other day – I know absolutely nobody that owns a Hardy fishing rod.* I am not talking about hand me down rods or older rods bought on eBay – I am talking about brand new rods (and reels for the matter) that people are in the market…

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    I have used it for around 10 years ! Love it !

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    You did well to get out fishing at all in this weather and to get a trout in those conditions.…

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    I had plenty of evenings fishing the water of leith plus the river Avon , Edinburgh area . Caught a…

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