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Category: Observations

Roaming in the Gloaming

24 June, 202224 June, 2022 by Alistair

Managed an evening session after work on the Kelvin – a lovely warm evening with good temps right up until the bats were on the water. River is low however still plenty of trout taking off the surface. I was surprised that the colour of the water is quite dirty looking and not that clear….

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Early Season Flies – Part Two

7 June, 202120 June, 2021 by Alistair

Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yes, flies and imitations. Well another three handy flies to have at this time of year also cover a variety of insects – and two of them are not dry flies they are emergers. Remember in part one we were talking about the Large Dark Olive – well…

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Get the wallets oot, it is the new season!

6 April, 20216 April, 2021 by Alistair

A week or so ago I posted over on the facebook page about how I wondered what the hell a bluetooth nano fly rod was all about? This happened because the Sportfish catalogue fell through the door and I took great delight in flicking through it at the stuff that I didn’t need.  I am…

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It’s all kicking off on the twitter with the Glasgow Angling Centre

9 January, 20219 January, 2021 by Alistair

It must be difficult for the Glasgow Angling Centre right now trying to choose a fish of the week as folks angling has been curtailed in a major way.  You can tell this because after a recent choice of a well squeezed grayling was chosen legendary fisher,writer and fly tyer Matt Eastham called them out…

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Something I posted over at the Kelvin Fisher’s facebook page.

16 June, 20202 January, 2021 by Alistair

Hiya, I have been fishing the Kelvin now for over twenty years and writing about fishing it over at floralwhite-caterpillar-928873.hostingersite.com for the majority of that time. I was the main drive towards “social media”for the Kelvin – some of you can remember the infamous Kelvin Forum wars we had and some of the characters we…

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Thanks to Yorkshire Water!

18 May, 201823 May, 2018 by Alistair

There has actually been many benefits to us anglers thanks to Europe – lots of improvements have been thanks to various European Directives and our improving water quality across our rivers is fantastic for trout and salmon. However in collaboration with Yorkshire Water I am able to reveal some exciting news about the Little River…

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Spring Mode: Prepare to engage!

23 February, 2015 by Alistair
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January Springwatch

3 January, 20154 January, 2015 by Alistair

Never let it be said I am not an optimist however I was playing in the garden with the boys today and experienced two signs of Spring. My youngest called me over to the first. I had to peer through my Winter fog brain however I noticed some more sprouting up elsewhere in the garden….

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Happy Ne…..SLAP

31 December, 2014 by Alistair
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Different strokes

27 October, 201427 October, 2014 by Alistair

I have been laying off encouraging the oldest boy coming fishing with me. I have pals with kids in their twenties who do not fish and I always wonder why. Their dads (my pals) tell me they encouraged them when younger however they just drifted away from it. I wonder if they encouraged them too…

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

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

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

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

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

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