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Category: Other River Fishing!!

A Troutastic Day Out!

27 July, 2010 by Alistair

I had a day on the big river on Sunday – my pal Emanuele was up from Hull for a long weekend and we arranged to meet up for a day’s fishing – we used to fish this place regularly a few years ago. The day was overcast and warm – at least warm enough…

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Trout at Last..

20 July, 2010 by Alistair

All this sea fishing and Salmon fishing has been fun – I am expecting a few more sessions like that before the season is gone. I may well go after Salmon again this week with both the dreaded spinning rod and the fly rod however today I needed to do what I love most –…

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Fishing in Lilliputian Style!

10 August, 2009 by Alistair

Fished a tiny stream on Sunday – the day was warm with a forecast of rain – it began to cloud over by midday – the rain never arrived. The stream was in a gorge and for once there was no burnt out cars (although strangely still an exhaust). I fished with Paul the KAA…

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Shit Pipe River..

12 May, 2009 by Alistair

Sunday – it had been raining for three days so pretty much knew the Kelvin would be out of action. I considered a few other possibilities and decided the “river of pipes” was a possibility, I called it that as it has an extraordinary number of pipes over it – most if em’ shite pipes…

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£500,000 project to restore historic fountain in the park

5 May, 20095 May, 2009 by Alistair

I think this is great : More than £500,000 will be spent restoring the Stewart Memorial Fountain in Kelvingrove Park. An underground water recycling system will be installed which will allow the fountain to operate in a sustainable way for the first time in its long history. Until now the fountain has been fed from…

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Lookin’ after the missus!

26 April, 200927 April, 2009 by Alistair

So there were two new mothers who wanted to go the Baby Show at the SECC and there were two new fathers who wanted to go fishing – simple solution – hook up the two mothers to keep company while the two guys go fishing – sometimes I think James Bond will come after me…

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Tying Flees!

24 April, 2009 by Alistair

Ok – so winter was a washout when it came to tying up flies – if I had my head screwed on I would have tied up some at the end of last season however due to Pike Madness pretty much everything went by the wayside.  I thought people who moaned about having no free…

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Lessons learned with cold hands…

22 April, 2009 by Alistair

When I arrived at the “other” river the conditions seemed just right – as I was getting my permit I ran into Neil “Trout Machine” Sinclair of Double Decker fame (double deer hair wings  allow the fly to be used in the heavy water where  big fish like to sit) -“if he is here” I reasoned…

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I’m not calling to gloat..

1 April, 20091 April, 2009 by Alistair

“I’m not calling to gloat” I said to Campbell – “I am just phoning to share the ……joy of catching the first trout of the season” You see, Campbell is a kindred spirit – we both thought if we had our child (like it was planned) in January that would give us a few months…

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Spring?

14 March, 2009 by Alistair

What is it that tells you guys that Spring is finally here? For me it is when I finally see those first flowers of yellow as I travel up the Great Western Road. I watch them snake all the way along the central reservation – sadly they are only ever there for a few weeks…

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