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Category: River Kelvin Fishing

2012 Trout Season – you were like a batshit crazy girlfriend!

14 October, 201214 October, 2012 by Alistair

That is correct, you were like a crazy girlfriend. On one hand you promised so much (the sex was good) however on the other you turned up at crazy times at my house and made unreasonable demands. You were like two separate people, the problem was the crazy part far outweighed the good part. The good part of the relationship…

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So this is the last day?

6 October, 2012 by Alistair

So this is what the last day of the season looks like? I say “season” however on the Kelvin it was pretty much half a season. The trees still have leaves and the invasives are still still kicking around. The river looks perfect to be honest, it looks that lovely full up way. It has a nice…

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Another Kelvin Work Party – this Sunday!

28 September, 2012 by Alistair

From Fish Kelvin: Thanks to all those that attended on Sunday the 16th. We managed to open up another pool above Balmore Bridge, I look forward to hearing about the first Salmon caught from it. The days have been really productive (we have opened up several pools in the City and Balmore), so we intend…

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Kelvin Work Party – now with added free booze and girls*

6 September, 20126 September, 2012 by Alistair

Every time there is a River Kelvin Angling Association work party there is always some excuse why I cannot attend – just like this Sundays. The wife is away to Spain on a hen gig and I am left with the kids. Anyway, I always ask for folk to take photos and send me them,…

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First Tenkara Action..

5 September, 20124 January, 2021 by Alistair

So today I got a chance to try out Tenkara. If you have not at least heard of Tenkara then you must have been living in a bubble as it is the new fly fishing craze that is sweeping the states and has gradually moved over here. Tenkara as described by my fishing buddy Atkins…

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Rained Off.

4 September, 2012 by Alistair

I got to the river at around 6pm, it was up around a foot an running a dark color. There was some visibility in it as pointed out by John in the comments so I was kinda hopeful as I started. I wanted to try out the Tenkara rod that I had swapped for an ad in the…

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On being asked for a permit..

23 August, 201229 August, 2012 by Alistair

The river remains best suited to Salmon fishers after another downpour of rain.   Just to show that a committee members life is not all cocaine fueled wild parties here is an image of a meeting in the Islay Inn involving some of the committee members discussing recent events on the river. The Islay Inn in case you did not know is the…

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50 shades of brown..

5 August, 20129 August, 2012 by Alistair

Decided not to go fishing as my wife was going for a run after work – got a text from Jim Burns to say the river was in fine fettle and he could see rising fish despite all the rain over the last day – wife wanted to finish reading her sexy book – [amazon_link id=”0099579936″…

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Aaaaaand back to the “K”

30 July, 2012 by Alistair

For trout fishing the Kelvin has been absolutely bloody awful for over a month now. I thought thas as we did not have any major downpours over the weekend it would be ok for Sunday night however as soon as I arrived I wondered why it was a dirty brown – it was fishable however only…

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Being Watched…

21 July, 2012 by Alistair

Saturday evening was suppose to be a Clyde trip however at the last moment was changed to a good old Kelvin night out – pretty much because I realised that I was not going to get away early enough to justify the trip. I met up with the legendary Jim Burns who was already checking out…

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