Experts Predict A Scorcher People around the world will experience the warmest year on record in 2007, it has been predicted. Climate change experts say global temperatures are expected to be 0.54C above the long-term average of 14C. There is a 60% probability that 2007 will be as warm or warmer than the current warmest…
Celebrity Big Brother- Dirk Benedict
In case you did not know – Celebrity Big Brother is once more gracing our screens in th UK and there is an angler in there- a fly fisherman no less. Yup, it is Dirk Benedict of the A-Team and Battlestar Galactica fame. He has even wrote a few fly fishing booksIf your wife or…
The Poacher’s Handbook
I recieved this book as a christmas present… Took me a couple of days to read it and I must say that it is simply a lovely read. It made me want to get up in the wee small hours to set up a long net to catch some Hares and then use my stoat…
72 days and counting
Oh, aye…Happy New Year!!. So a nice quiet time was had on Hogmanay. I think it was at around 2pm on the first that I suddenly realised that I had not caught a fish all year. Alex has been making a killing with the Pike and is considering buying a nine weight whilst I have…
Kamasan b100
I was visiting the Glasgow Angling Centre the other day with Mike and we got around to discussing hooks as you do when you meet up with any angler in the close season. Discussions in the close season all come around to fishing eventually, usually a lot more in-depth conversations are to be had during…
Flies for the new season- klinkhammer special….part 1
This time around I do not want to start the season with around 4 trout attacked flies that I need to struggle along with until I can be bothered tying up some more. My idea is that I will build up a little stock of essential flies so that I do not have to panic…
Fishing hats off to the Accidental Angler
Windknotter does a lovely write up on the Accidental Angler Fishing hats off to the Accidental Angler You can now buy the book from Amazon
Five Things You Dont Know About Alistair Stewart
Tom Chandler over at Trout Underground in his business disguise decided to pass me the “Blog Tag” poison chalice where I get to share five things that you probably don’t know about me. Considering I had a “100 things about me” page up for a year I don’t think there is anything left but for…