So today, I got my gear together for a bit of a walk upstream to where the Kelvin is deep and slow. As I was getting my stuff together I was standing at the bridge in the Vet School under the main road….I heard a voice shout out YOUR SHITE AT FISHIN I looked around,…
FlySim Fly Fishing Game
FlySim Fly Fishing Game So I downloaded the fly sim game. Looks ok although my casting is absolutely terrible in it (no changes there then) Caught a brook trout at 1.5lb woohoo….wish it was a real one though :/
Bad Fishing Joke!
The Fishing Groom A man and his newlywed check into a mountain resort by a lake. The desk clerk notices the “Just Married” sign still on the car. As soon as the man gets the luggage out of the car, he hops in a boat to go fishing. He is out all day, comes back…
Fluorocarbon and Lead
Fluorocarbon and Lead Makes interesting reading… Every piece of fluorocarbon line, leader or tippet clipped, deposited in a landfill, discarded along or in any body of water or accidentally broken off while fishing will remain for our children, there children and their children’s children to confront. Fly fishers have bitched for years about the volumes…
Small Stream Action (or rather the lack of it)
So I was thrown out the house today as my fiancé had someone coming around to give here a “preview†of what her make up would look like on our wedding day. “You will just have to go fishing†She said! “If you insist†As it turned out the smaller tributary was pretty low. Yesterday…
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Italian river ‘full of cocaine’
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Italian river ‘full of cocaine’ Scientists have found large quantities of a cocaine by-product in a river in northern Italy – suggesting consumption is much higher than previously thought. The River Po was found to be carrying the equivalent of nearly 4kg (8.8 pounds) of cocaine daily. The…
Being a Warden on the Kelvin!
A man was stopped by a warden down on the Kelvin recently with two buckets of live trout . The warden asked the man, “Do you have a license to catch those fish?” The man replied to the warden, “No, sir. These are my pet fish.” “Pet fish?” the warden replied. “Yes, sir. Every night…
Evening Session!
So a couple of friends and I went to our little spot on the other river that we know for an evening session. It was hard fishing from the outset, it was totally in contrast to the other evening when it was hard fishing but at least there was plenty of fish actually rising. Emanuele…