I was thinking the other day about all the perks of being the Vice Chair of the River Kelvin Angling Association – I mean it is a big club with nearly 1000 members, we have a healthy bank balance, we have good trout fishing and great runs of Salmon. You would think there would be…
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Bags of Shite!
Can I just point out that I do not mind dogs that much – I mean over the years I have been attacked by Rottweilers and have had to put up with my fair share of splashing dogs in my time however I do not hold anything against them (especially my crotch and on one memorable…
Last Days….
The Summer is now into its old age and heading towards its grave – the leaves are falling off the trees and I had been hoping to have one final cast before the winter (and close season hit) – I also had a plan to clean the grime from my Salmon fishing exploits off my…
Weekly water photo 33 of 52
So I was down the park with the boy and spotted a couple of fly anglers having a bash for the salmon – couple of nice lads! I spoke to them for a bit until the boy got bored and then headed up the road – had to stop on a bench next to the…
Evening Stats…
Stats: Trout Rising: (est) 23 Number of total casts: (est) 150 Number of casts to individual fish: 8 Fly changes: 4 Smallest fly used : size 20 Trout caught : 1 Sweary words: 6 Salmon seen: 1 Call to Alan Atkins to tell him about Salmon: 1 Number of Trootsies spooked: 0 (note: they ignored everything) Random angler met in car…
Bought a Whip!
So I have been thinking recently about how to get the boy interested in fishing. I have heard far too many stories about how fathers can stuff their hobby down their kid’s throat and thus put them off it totally. I certainly do not want to do that. I suppose there is no real correct or…
Coarse fish on the fly?
I admit I have no experience of this so am about to but this book: (The picture is an amazon affiliate link) You see, there is this huge shoal of roach on the canal that are taunting me every time I walk past – I know they can be caught on the fly as I have read…
Comfy Feet on the Kelvin
So Sunday night I decided on a dusk session on the Kelvin – it was another good session with lots of trout caught. No big ones this time – as I walked up the river there was a chap fishing down and across through the pool I wanted to stake out – this meant the…
Kids and the Kelvin – its lookin’ Grrrrrrrrrrreat!
I thought I would check in to see how the Kids and the Kelvin project is doing over at there site. Quite frankly I think it looks great fun – he has somehow managed to convince the Teachers that keeping a hatchery in the classroom and then releasing the fish into feeder streams is a…
I had forgotten…
Sometimes you forget something good that is right under your nose – For a few years I fished the same stretch of the Kelvin and got to know every nook and cranny there was to know – it was maybe a mile or so of water. That is in fact a lot of pools, riffles,…