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Ladies & Gents, we have a CRIMP!

9 June, 2013 by Alistair

I attended a meeting up at Glasgow University a while ago, it was hosted by Willie Yeomans and was introducing CRIMP. CRIMP is a citizen science project which aims to provide training in riverfly monitoring to volunteers across the eight counties of the River Clyde catchment. Riverfly monitoring can help protect the quality of our rivers;…

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Tenuous Fishing Photos 17/52

29 April, 2010 by Alistair

This is a picture from last Sunday – sewage leaking into the river from an old pipe. This was reported to SEPA last year as well. This kind of shit makes our rivers stink and drives people away – it is pretty bad for the fish and insect life as well. Serious action must be…

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Shit Pipe River..

12 May, 2009 by Alistair

Sunday – it had been raining for three days so pretty much knew the Kelvin would be out of action. I considered a few other possibilities and decided the “river of pipes” was a possibility, I called it that as it has an extraordinary number of pipes over it – most if em’ shite pipes…

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    You will not get better for your money , looking back I received it in 2009 and it still works…

  2. Alistair on JVice – one of my favourite things!21 November, 2024

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

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    A year or so later, do you still love the jvice? I am considering purchasing one...

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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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