So today is the start of the Urban Fly fishing on the Kelvin caption competition! The competition is open to anyone, in any country whether I know them or not. It is a simple little caption contest, nothing too difficult I am sure. It is however a caption contest with a twist. YOU choose the…
Celebrating Maryhill
A lovely site about peoples memories of Maryhill. Celebrating20Maryhill20-20Home
Fancy a picnic with some friends dear ?
So today was a nice day out with my wife, my niece, my fishing buddy Emmanuelle, his partner and his 6 month old baby. It was planned last week at my little barbeque, we were supposed to go to the Tummel but at the last minute decided to go to New Lanark instead. We went…
Made that trout all the sweeter!
Yesterday was roasting hot and last night was warm. It was so hot that I thought I was going to blank at one point. As it was I managed a nice plump trout from a tiny bit of pocket water. It was beautifully spotted, hundreds of them tightly packed along its body. Not the typical…
The Underground Fly Fish Blog » Friday News Follies at the Underground…
Fancy a fish coffin anyone ? Tom Chandler over at Trout Underground dug this one up, pretty interesting ! The Underground Fly Fish Blog » Friday News Follies at the Underground…
Hot Hot Hot !
Hot, very hot….not the fishing but the temperature. Some trout rising, didn’t have a clue what to. At this little spot there was around 4 trout going at it like crazy. What the hell, they refused everything I tried. Additionally there was the insult of sipping flies around my artificial. Eventually I took a couple…
Fancy a romantic evening by the river darling?
So I managed to wangle a lift to my other river under the guise of a romantic evening by the river. There is Claire over there to the right of that cow Claire read a magazine whilst I fished. I had to coal carry her across a couple of burns (which she found fun although…
A bit of a walk up Beinn Dubh
A bit of a walk is an understatement actually. As yesterday was for lots of food and drink as it was barbeque weather (no fishing as it was to hot) and today it was time to work a bit of that excess off with a bit of hill walking. We decided to tackle Beinn Dubh…
A site watch out for !
You know, this just happens to be the longest running personal blog dedicated to fly fishing on the net. I remember when I started this I had a good hunt around and could not find any others. I mean, others spoke about fishing but also had a fair chunk of other stuff as well. Since…