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Month: June 2006

Celebrating Maryhill

12 June, 2006 by Alistair

A lovely site about peoples memories of Maryhill. Celebrating20Maryhill20-20Home

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Fancy a picnic with some friends dear ?

11 June, 2006 by Alistair

So today was a nice day out with my wife, my niece, my fishing buddy Emmanuelle, his partner and his 6 month old baby. It was planned last week at my little barbeque, we were supposed to go to the Tummel but at the last minute decided to go to New Lanark instead. We went…

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Made that trout all the sweeter!

10 June, 2006 by Alistair

Yesterday was roasting hot and last night was warm. It was so hot that I thought I was going to blank at one point. As it was I managed a nice plump trout from a tiny bit of pocket water. It was beautifully spotted, hundreds of them tightly packed along its body. Not the typical…

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The Underground Fly Fish Blog » Friday News Follies at the Underground…

10 June, 2006 by Alistair

Fancy a fish coffin anyone ? Tom Chandler over at Trout Underground dug this one up, pretty interesting ! The Underground Fly Fish Blog » Friday News Follies at the Underground…

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Hot Hot Hot !

8 June, 2006 by Alistair

Hot, very hot….not the fishing but the temperature. Some trout rising, didn’t have a clue what to. At this little spot there was around 4 trout going at it like crazy. What the hell, they refused everything I tried. Additionally there was the insult of sipping flies around my artificial. Eventually I took a couple…

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Fancy a romantic evening by the river darling?

5 June, 2006 by Alistair

So I managed to wangle a lift to my other river under the guise of a romantic evening by the river. There is Claire over there to the right of that cow Claire read a magazine whilst I fished. I had to coal carry her across a couple of burns (which she found fun although…

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A bit of a walk up Beinn Dubh

4 June, 2006 by Alistair

A bit of a walk is an understatement actually. As yesterday was for lots of food and drink as it was barbeque weather (no fishing as it was to hot) and today it was time to work a bit of that excess off with a bit of hill walking. We decided to tackle Beinn Dubh…

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Pretty much anything in life….

3 June, 2006 by Alistair
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A site watch out for !

2 June, 2006 by Alistair

You know, this just happens to be the longest running personal blog dedicated to fly fishing on the net. I remember when I started this I had a good hunt around and could not find any others. I mean, others spoke about fishing but also had a fair chunk of other stuff as well. Since…

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