Skip to content
Menu
The Urban Fly Fisher
  • About
  • Read my old stuff here!
  • Subscribe via email here
The Urban Fly Fisher

Category: Links

Bill Dance

21 November, 2006 by Alistair

This one has been doing the rounds for a while… [tags]bill dance,video [/tags]

Read More

Two Way Radio aka Walky Talkies and Fishing….Roger Roger

16 November, 2006 by Alistair

So it was this year I got exited about whole idea of using walky talkies while fishing. It was Mike that put me on to the idea and I was resistant at first. When he told me he had bought a couple for him and his brother I rubbished the whole idea straight away (I…

Read More

Casting Technique

13 November, 2006 by Alistair

Mike over at Tamanawis has been getting pretty stressed out about his casting, well when i say stressed out I mean he is becoming a little obsessive…..in a nice way 🙂 Maybe he should take some hints from this chap.

Read More

‘I’m not an animal lover’

4 November, 2006 by Alistair

A great article with David Attenborough over on the guardian website… So why has David Attenborough spent more than 50 years making programmes about the natural world? Decca Aitkenhead talks Steve Irwin, salamanders and climate change with him Check it out He does say some rather nice things about Steve Irwin

Read More

Anglers and drug testing

25 October, 2006 by Alistair

I cannot believe I missed this one. … TOP championship anglers were left shocked… after being asked to submit to drug tests. Competitors at last week’s World Angling Championships were told to give urine samples or face losing their prizes. Astonishingly, the tests – which they all passed – were made because officials fear stimulants…

Read More

The origins of the Kelvin (or The Kelvin Strikes Back)

24 October, 2006 by Alistair

Dullatur bog Dullatur Bog is the source of the River Kelvin, an important wildlife site… and a headache for the engineer of the Forth & Clyde Canal. Canal engineer John Smeaton believed he could cut the canal through the bog, at the same time filling it with water to prevent it from collapsing. He was…

Read More

River Kelvin flood 1994

23 October, 20064 January, 2021 by Alistair

Anyone in Glasgow mind the great flood of 1994 ?. Over at Hidden Glasgow they have some pretty neat pictures! After days of continuous rainfall that fell over Glasgow in the early part of December 1994 the Glasgow Central Low Level Railway was about to be engulfed by thousands of gallons of water that poured…

Read More

Added a new “about” page

21 October, 2006 by Alistair

Added a new “about” page for new readers 🙂

Read More

Looking forward to a bit of this action already

17 October, 2006 by Alistair

A lovely video from You Tube

Read More

BNP terror plot

12 October, 2006 by Alistair

I don’t often step into the world of politics as this is a fishing blog however here is a story that not many people in the UK know about involving chemical weapons in their back yard so to speak. I look on it as my duty as a blogger to spread the word. This week…

Read More
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • …
  • 19
  • Next

Connect with The Urban Fly Fisher on the cursed Facebook

Connect with The Urban Fly Fisher on the cursed Facebook

  1. Alistair on JVice – one of my favourite things!21 November, 2024

    You will not get better for your money , looking back I received it in 2009 and it still works…

  2. Alistair on JVice – one of my favourite things!21 November, 2024

    I have used it for around 10 years ! Love it !

  3. espo74 on JVice – one of my favourite things!21 November, 2024

    A year or so later, do you still love the jvice? I am considering purchasing one...

  4. Alex Laurie on So it looks like I am a friend to the sheep.6 April, 2024

    You did well to get out fishing at all in this weather and to get a trout in those conditions.…

  5. Richard huntley on Winter memories – summer bites?10 December, 2023

    I had plenty of evenings fishing the water of leith plus the river Avon , Edinburgh area . Caught a…

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,968 other subscribers.

Please Donate to my Hosting Fees Fund

©2025 The Urban Fly Fisher | Powered by WordPress and Superb Themes!