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Category: brownlining

Low/High/Mid/Temp?

24 May, 2021 by Alistair

Glasgow is back in level three meaning that I cannot in good faith visit to have a cast on the Kelvin. My office near the Kelvin is not due to be opening anytime soon which means I am goosed for some early season trout action – I have heard up until now the season has…

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Late Spring

23 April, 2021 by Alistair

You would be forgiven for thinking that I have not done much fishing over the last few weeks however the opposite is true. I have just not done any trout fishing – well, brown trout that is. I have mostly been out and about on the estuary chasing sea trout. I have been trying out…

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Signs of Life

1 April, 20211 April, 2021 by Alistair

It is April and that means that everything is now waking up – the birds are in the trees (I can now hear the woodpeckers) and I spotted my first olive on my wee burn yesterday. A fallen tree branch is across the main pool however this is literally a 25min fish – I may…

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Blog Shout Outs!

29 March, 2021 by Alistair

Blogs I read: Bure Boy Blog Becks and Brown Trout Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire

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March 15th fast approaching!

13 March, 2021 by Alistair

I used to take the day off on March the 15th to get out and do some trout fishing after the long winter. Then I realised that there was not much point as the “real” action actually started at the start of April – the first two weeks of the brown trout season was just…

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A little bit of this…

10 July, 202010 July, 2020 by Alistair

Had several sessions over the last few weeks – I was out on a highland river the other night. The one where I had just bought my permit and then had to tank it up the road from in my previous post. Annoyingly, this time I had a totally free pass and as soon as…

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Stay at home

24 March, 20202 January, 2021 by Alistair

Treat people like they’re all infected with some virus that’s going to kill you and we’ll be over this in no time.

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Kaboom – 2020 Trout Season

16 March, 20202 January, 2021 by Alistair

I have been busying away at the vice tying up wee spiky things and have also been sorting out my gear. Thanfully river trout fishing tends to lend itself to isolation so at least we have got that going for us!

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Step by Step

29 January, 202029 January, 2020 by Alistair

Do you remember when to learn how to tie a fly you had to look at a series of pictures to understand the technique? Now when you lookup how to tie a particular pattern you are directed to YouTube with half a dozen guys showing you how it is done. Which reminds me, I need…

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Winter Kelvin

25 January, 202025 January, 2020 by Alistair
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