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Experts Predict A Scorcher

4 January, 2007 by Alistair

Experts Predict A Scorcher People around the world will experience the warmest year on record in 2007, it has been predicted. Climate change experts say global temperatures are expected to be 0.54C above the long-term average of 14C. There is a 60% probability that 2007 will be as warm or warmer than the current warmest…

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Celebrity Big Brother- Dirk Benedict

3 January, 20074 January, 2021 by Alistair

In case you did not know – Celebrity Big Brother is once more gracing our screens in th UK and there is an angler in there- a fly fisherman no less. Yup, it is Dirk Benedict of the A-Team and Battlestar Galactica fame. He has even wrote a few fly fishing booksIf your wife or…

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Lovely…

24 December, 2006 by Alistair
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Fishing hats off to the Accidental Angler

19 December, 2006 by Alistair

Windknotter does a lovely write up on the Accidental Angler Fishing hats off to the Accidental Angler You can now buy the book from Amazon

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Five Things You Dont Know About Alistair Stewart

15 December, 20063 July, 2008 by Alistair

Tom Chandler over at Trout Underground in his business disguise decided to pass me the “Blog Tag” poison chalice where I get to share five things that you probably don’t know about me. Considering I had a “100 things about me” page up for a year I don’t think there is anything left but for…

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River Kelvin Trip Pt2 – YouTube

12 December, 2006 by Alistair

And here is part two of that nice little video

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What is the script with my Tippet?

9 December, 2006 by Alistair

I have had a bit of a bad year with tippet material. At the start of the season I bought some “Frog Hair” and really liked it. It turned over well and had a good fine diameter. For some reason it started to deteriorate rapidly. About half way through the spool I noticed that when…

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River Kelvin Trip Pt1 – YouTube

7 December, 2006 by Alistair

Was wandering around youtube and came across this-Should give my international readers a little flavour of just how urban the Kelvin actually is 🙂 [tags]river kelvin video [/tags]

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Review: The Trout Bum Diaries, Volume I

5 December, 2006 by Alistair

I was intrigued when I got my hands on this film; I have been a watcher of the Angling Exploration Group for a while now and was keen to see just what kind of film they had churned out. It was clear from the beginning this was not going to be your usual fly fishing…

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Dawsholm Park under threat

29 November, 2006 by Alistair

Dawsholm Park is under threat, this time from a school. A PRIVATE school in Glasgow is in talks with the council to buy one of the city’s public parks. Dawsholm Park, between Kelvindale and Bearsden, is up for sale and Glasgow City Council is in “discussions” with St Aloysius College. The Jesuit independent school, for…

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