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Urban Fly Fisher on Twitter

9 March, 2010 by Alistair

I have decided to embrace the whole twitter revolution – witter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets – the main reason I am embracing it as I have a fancy new phone which allows me to use the service easily. I intend…

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Glasgow Angling Centre Opening Weekend – this weekend!

2 March, 2010 by Alistair

You know the trout season is just around the corner when the Glasgow Angling Centre have an opening day ..I was having a gander at the invited guests and guess who I spotted was missing That’s right – John Wilson will not be attending – that in itself should be a crowd pleaser considering he blanked…

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Does Hardy’s brand suck?

2 February, 20108 January, 2021 by Alistair

You know – a thought struck me the other day – I know absolutely nobody that owns a Hardy fishing rod.* I am not talking about hand me down rods or older rods bought on eBay – I am talking about brand new rods (and reels for the matter) that people are in the market…

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Harvesting The Bush!

31 January, 201031 January, 2010 by Alistair

It was after I had been away for a weekend some time ago with the boys for some intensive fishing (as opposed to catching) that the madness struck – I make no excuses for it – when you go away for a long weekend fishing all you do is think trout, talk about trout and…

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Kelvin.23

8 December, 20099 December, 2009 by Alistair

OMG – I so want one: Features: Cast aluminium body 16 Essential CRV screw driver bits Convenient 6ft/2m tape measure Steel hammer surface Screw driver locks at 90 degree angle for extra torque Powerful alloy magnets to hold loose screws Snap action screw driver folds away when not in use LED shines light where you…

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Glasgow Angling Centre Open Day – Key of the Door Celebrations

25 September, 2009 by Alistair

Another weekend of fun is to be had at the Glasgow Angling Centre open day Paul Young – the only mortal to make a fishing programme that everyone actually likes will be cruising around giving autographs and buying pints (maybe not the buying pints bit however he will not blank you unlike John Wilson) Not…

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Stream Thought

6 June, 2009 by Alistair

I was  flicking through “Stream Thought” after the writer/photographer posted a comment here and noticed he had posted a a gem of a find ! It is a quote from a book on Sea Trout fishing: “Brown trout give themselves up to those with skill and salmon to those with money but the sea trout…

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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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Milngavie Fly Dressers & Casting Club

14 April, 2009 by Alistair

Damn and blast – looks like I will be missing this week’s guest speaker at Milngavie Fly Dressers  as I am away for the weekend. Magnus Angus writer for Fly Fishing & Fly Tying will be giving a presentation on Thursday 16th April on macro photography of flies and feed back on what it takes…

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GAC Open Weekend Charity Raffle Winners..

2 March, 2009 by Alistair

The raffle was drawn by the tyers at 5pm on Sunday and the winners are as follows…….. Duncan Egan’s print was won by Mr A. Ferguson of Ayrshire  Davy McPhail’s print was won by Mr J Fisher from Glasgow  Mikael Frodin’s print was won by Mr W R Woods from Derby  A cheque is on its…

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