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Category: Fly Tying

The Complete Fisher. The Klinkhammer

2 January, 2006 by Alistair

The Complete Fisher – 2nd time. The Klinkhammer A pretty fine walkthrough on how to tie Klinkhammers ! One of my new year resolutions is to tie many more flies. Oh, later I shall show you some of the rather nice crimbo presents I recieved that will make rting flies a little easier 🙂

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Glasgow Fly Tying Evening

28 September, 2005 by Alistair

The Fly Tying night is starting up again…the venue is:: the Yarrow Club at 223 Anniesland Road, Glasgow G13 1RP. The night will be a Wednesday and it starts on the 5th October at 6.30pm. I will be there, unless it stops raining, in which case I will be fishing….and then wander in late!

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All set and then….

18 May, 2005 by Alistair

So I had worked my ass off the last few days so that I could get fishing today and guess what happened?? Yup it started to rain……pfft typical! Anyway, I spent a couple of hours today tying up some Klinkhammer specials, I have been finding that when a fish took my knlinkhammers they seem to…

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Very Industrious Fly Tying!!

28 March, 2005 by Alistair

If I cannot get out and actually go fishing I have decided to pull my gear out and tie some flies…. Seeing as how my better half now uses the kitchen as an office I have had to use a tiny little table to tie up some flies…. Later on this evening I am going…

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Fly Tying Storage

17 January, 2005 by Alistair

You need somewhere to store all your fly tying stuff right?? You cannot afford a couple of grand on an oak bench so what do you do? You count on the dutch to come up with a practical solution that also looks cool as well. I think so anyway. When I first went to a…

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Got masel some foam!! (although no foam at the casting “pool”)

9 January, 2005 by Alistair

So I bought some black foam the other day. The idea is that I tie up some black beetles for the times that there is not actually a hatch going down. I will tie some up during the week and post the pictures. I know that I always say that I will post the pictures…

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The Fly Tying Night

13 November, 2004 by Alistair

So I have been going to a fly tying evening…..I wrote about it a few weeks back.It is certainly something to concentrate on for this winter …something to take my mind off uni work anyway. Anyway, Its not on this week for the people that were thinking of going. If you read the blog that…

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Glasgow Fly Dressing Club

15 October, 2004 by Alistair

You may remember I went along to the West Of Scotlands Fly Tyers guild night to see Charles Jardine tie some flies. Well, the night has now stopped but restarted under the guise of Glasgow Fly Dressing Club It is a good excuse to talk about fishing and have an odd pint…….and I suppose to…

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Grizzly Neck!!

20 September, 2004 by Alistair

So I went to check out the new “Glasgow Angling Centre” down in port dundas today. Now, everyone knows I moan about the original GAC being too big and being like a fishing stuff tesco but the new shop…. makes the old shop look like a cosy corner shop by comparison. It is like going…

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I suppose I suppose!!!

19 September, 2004 by Alistair

So a while ago ……like a good few weeks ago I made plans with a couple of friends to go for a days fishing today. As usuall like the best made plans we did not take into account the weather. It was pouring with rain….in fact it has been raining the last few days so…

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