Apologies to folk who received a rough draft of this post by email. A cold front started to move in over the weekend – the reasonable temps of last week gave way to temps in the single figures Saturday and Sunday – Saturday I went to the Zoo (and ran into Mike from Tamanawis at the Monkeys) however Sunday I…
Category: River Clyde
Belter of a Session!
While all you suckers were out working last week I took the day off and ended up with a mid week belter of a session on the Clyde – overcast and warm conditions (the river was also a little high and coloured) meant I caught around 2 dozen trout on the dry fly between 1000…
What could have been!
Thursday – hot – roasting hot – Glasgow was boiling – overcast and oppressive – Kelvin has no water so we headed to the big sister/brother The Clyde in search of some kind of evening rise – it was even hotter out that way with the added problem of there being no clouds – we…
From the urban – to the not so!
It is sometimes easy to see why some people think the Kelvin is not an urban river – especially from the pictures that I post on this site. You see – there is a green corridor that cuts through Glasgow and down this passageway the Kelvin runs – the corridor has its own compliment of…
Conditions good? = wrong!!
Decided on fishing the Kelvins big sister/brother as a pass was given at the last minute – it looked like it was going to be good conditions – overcast and windy – so where did it all go wrong? Well for a start it was cold, and a north easterly wind pushed an area of…
Enough for any man, women, boy or girl.
I thought I had hit the river at the right time, I gazed rather pessimistically (it must be said) at the river – it was the colour of strong tea and up around a good foot and half – that is a lot of water coming down. The venue was the Clyde however I was…
What a weekend!
It has been pretty much non stop fishing from early Saturday morning until now – Sunday late afternoon. Saturday We had a crazy plan to try and catch 4 species – Pike, Trout, Sea Trout and Mackerel. It turned out we enjoyed fishing for the trout just a little too much and so missed out…
Hit or Miss…..verdict = Miss
Not sure what happened today – fished the Clyde with little success. It was warm, overcast and little wind. There were several types of flies hatching, Yellow Mays, A large type olive and then this tiny little olive. I still managed to winkle out a few trout – this one came to a dry… And…
Fishing Urban Rivers
One of the things I like about fishing urban rivers is all the wee nooks and crannies you get to see which are right underneath people’s noses. Things that people don’t usually get to see just because they are walking along roads instead of underneath them. This was on the lower Clyde on the very…