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Tamanawis – Sounds!

14 November, 2008 by Alistair

He made us all wait – and then he writes something trully incredible. Sounds

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Vote for Piping Live 2008!

7 November, 2008 by Alistair

If you live in Glasgow you no doubt heard the bagpipes throughout the summer – this was organised by Piping Live and culminated (possibly the wrong word choice)  in their Piping festival which by all accounts was most excellent.  The Scottish Trad Music Awards announced the list of final nominations yesterday and  Piping Live! 2008 has…

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Noone told me Charles Rangeley-Wilson had a site?

4 November, 2008 by Alistair

Looks like the bloody thing has been around for yonks as well.  Go check it out

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Grayling Fishing Course – December 12th and 13th 2008

3 November, 2008 by Alistair

Alberto Laidlaw (casting maestro extraordinaire) is holding a two day grayling course on the River Teviot.  He says:   This year we have booked the Monteviot Beat on the River Teviot just outside Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders; this beat covers 2.5 miles of double bank fishing. This particular water is renowned for its large…

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Complete Rods

2 November, 20082 November, 2008 by Alistair

So someone sent me this link through the contact form. To be honest it looked pretty poor – a bright cheesy page for a CD some guys have made about fishing. I was about to click away ( people send me a lot of links that they want me to promote) however I was sitting…

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Backhand compliments..

29 October, 200830 October, 2008 by Alistair

I am laid up with a rather nasty throat bug.  I was looking through some of the blogs I visit when I came across this post over at Taunted by Waters. Essentially someone had linked to him and pointed out that he did not do much fishing however his writing was good for a read…

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We are gathered here today…

15 October, 2008 by Alistair

North Country Angler wrote a great post about death and dying – well, not really great – more sombre and well written – you know what I mean! Anyway, it got me thinking – he rose some very good points about where he wanted his ashes to be scattered and where probably they should not…

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Fisheries around Glasgow

14 October, 200814 October, 2008 by Alistair

Someone asked me about fisheries around Glasgow a while ago – what ones have you visited? Not really to my taste to be honest although I have blanked a few times on Harelaw – usually when I end up at a fishery it is because conditions are very poor everywhere else – usually this means the…

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The Suburban Bushwacker Jam – Get Some!!

10 October, 2008 by Alistair

I think I may be shooting myself in the foot here however the Suburban Bushwacker is running a competition – the prize is some of his Mum’s jam (I love Jam).  You must come up with the best use for an arm tattooed tape measure.  The Suburban Bushwacker Jam Competition

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United Clyde Protective Association Ltd

7 October, 2008 by Alistair

So UCAPA have a new website – and bloody good it is too.  Interesting to note they are doing everything that the River Kelvin Angling Association should be doing – there permit price is now rising to £30 for trout and photographs must be attached. Their Salmon permit is rising to £55.  Should UCAPA take…

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