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Category: River Kelvin Fishing

AAaiiiiaaaaagh a hole in me waders!!!

31 May, 2004 by Alistair

AAGRH!!! My vision “EXTREMES” have a leak in the right stockingfoot….now i know that the kelvin is kinda rough….but TOO EXTREME FOR VISION?????????

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theriverkelvin.co.uk – Welcome !

28 May, 2004 by Alistair

theriverkelvin.co.uk – Welcome ! I got annoyed uploading photos into a folder and then hunting through them to link them to the blog so i have created a photo album to store them. It took me ages today to change all the links…..so APPRECIATE it!!!! I will allso be storing pictures of my Glasgow wanderings…

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Its Low, dangerously low!!

26 May, 2004 by Alistair

Yesterday I decided to get the bus along to Partick and fish the West End stretch. The pools along through Kelvinbridge. My right foot was wet the second I put my foot in my waders, I knew that was a bad sign, My feet had been sweating yesterday as it was so hot and hadnt…

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Typical!!

24 May, 2004 by Alistair

Bloody typical…….I get up early, go out fishing, its not happening, come home, potter about the flat and in the evening when i cant get out it starts getting nice. And what is the script with the weather reports on BBc and teletext anyway, one minute it says rain next minute not…….and then its wrong…

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Just one of those days!!

24 May, 2004 by Alistair

Do you ever get one of those days when you just walk aimlessly? Got up early and walked down to Dawsholm park, at around 8am. No fish rising and for that matter th eriver was very low, down to its bones.. A nice new burnt out car sitting at the bridge, the last one got…

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Roasty Toasty!!

23 May, 2004 by Alistair

Its roasty toasty outsode today, the chances are it i sgoing to stay like that tommorow…….ach well. Anyway ive decided tommorow im going to hit the west end. I was going to go this afternoon but I was up late last night , steaming drunk at a familly barby. So i woke late, need to…

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Still windy, and some nice cock capes!!

20 May, 2004 by Alistair

Bought some nice cock capes off of ebay the other day and they arrived today……they look nice, very nice!! 2 light game and 2 furnace. If anyone has any easy peasy patterns I could follow let me know. I went up to the west end today with claires sister. She showed me a little book…

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Its a bit windy!!

18 May, 2004 by Alistair

Went down to the river fora few hours today. Well, one hour to be exact, i caught a couple of tiddlers and one nice sized at around quarter of a pound mark. It was a bit windy, trees blowing about, little flowery thingsblown on the water that kept getting caught in my fly.Also the water…

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Damn it all to heck!!

12 May, 2004 by Alistair

Today I lost my second biggest trout on the dry fly. I decided to head away from the vet school as its been getting mighty crowded as of late. I headed down to a little bit I know where the water is deep,slow and has a silty bottom . I usually see trout rising as…

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It was a Grey Duster!!

11 May, 2004 by Alistair

I had a comment yesterday that reminded me that I hadnt told you what fly I caught it on. it was a grey duster, quite a larhe size, 12. I just tried to match what was drifting past my chest. If you look at the photo below in the post below , the one that…

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