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changing colours..Site update

9 October, 2004 by Alistair

RIGHT!! Check out the updated site….. urban flyfishing I think the style flows over much better now….When you go to the flow section the garscube stretch opens in a new window, so does the blog for that matter! Just go and test it out for me 🙂 Oh yea…..if you look at the little rollover…

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Scary wading!

26 September, 2004 by Alistair

So today I had one of those crazy “I think I am going to drown moments”. I had waded out to the middle of the river that I was fishing. Rather foolhardy really. It was difficult fishing in the wind and you had to get yourself into particular positions to be able to present a…

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Season’s end!!

25 September, 2004 by Alistair

Well, it’s only another couple of weeks (if that) till the end of the trout season. It’s a shame as the last couple of weeks have been pretty bad weather wise so I have not gotten any fishing done. In the morning I am going with a friend to attack another river, not the Kelvin…

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Added small stream photos

21 September, 2004 by Alistair

I think I fixed all the links……have added small stream photos to gallery, better layout.

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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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More holiday photos!!!

15 September, 2004 by Alistair

HA!!!! you didnt think you were going to get away THAT easilly did you with a couple of pictures of trees. Well here is the worst case of vanity publishing ever… Yes, thats me with a crocodile….a baby one….and here is another one of me…..on the beach…….in ma Kilt!!! One of the touts on the…

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Rain and Smellyphants

7 September, 2004 by Alistair

Well hello from Sunny Sri Lamka….well in fact it is not actually sunny it has been raining the last few days…..not normal rain though…wild monsoon rain.Does not matter as we have done all the fun stuff anyway (including the wedding which i came over for). Stayed in a little village complex in the middle of…

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WooHOO

27 August, 2004 by Alistair

WooHOOO…..nowt to do with fishing at all but I thought you may interested in knowing that I have passed my resits for UNi. This means that I am in fact getting in to my final year. Allso meaning that I do not get a further two summers off which i was looking forward to but…

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A little bit of exitement!

23 August, 2004 by Alistair

So I woke up this morning and the weather forecast was for thunder, heavy rain and gales in the afternoon. I wanted to go on a lenghy treck along to a tributory but with the forecast I knew that was out the window. I was going to go to the gym but thought ….what the…

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Im going out for a run!

17 August, 2004 by Alistair

Right, Im gagging to get back to the kellie for a bit of dry fly action. I cant be bothered getting all my stuff together heading down there just to find that its all muddy so I have a cunning plan. Instead of heading down to the gym I am going to go for a…

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