River Kelvin Opening Ceremony ! 18th March 1100 Islay Inn
This Saturday it is all happening down the Kelvin. It is the annual River Kelvin Angling Association opening ceremony. Here is a video from the past: And that video was from 4 years ago so it is even more mental now! We now have rolls n sausage or bacon in the Islay Inn with a…
Two Kelvin Videos!
Kelvin videos are like buses, you wait for ages and then two excellent ones come along at once. The first is a video of some tree felling next to the river which at first I thought was going to be a bit of a bore however was actually very cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAnq9CHCv4 The second is a…
Stocktaking
“April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring” Not in this fishers life at the moment – the cruelest month happens to be February as that is the one that happens to come before March. March of course signifying the start of the trout season on…
Cortland Desire 10 foot 7 weight Review
So I was offered the Cortland Desire 10 foot for a 7 weight rod for review by Keen’s Tackle and Guns and it came kind of a surprise as I did not even know that Cortland make rods. The rod was the princely sum of around £50 which places it just above the budget conscious buyers…
Probably the best fish all year…
It was a perch caught surrounded by kids at the Arctic Circle!
Some LRF action at least!
I am getting sick of Facebook – every time I go on it all I read about is Kelvinators hauling in huge trout from the Kelvin on the River Kelvin Fishers page. I am currently in a Holiday Cottage that is probably as far down the Clyde as on can possibly go without actually being…
No fish all year!
Last night I realised that I had not actually caught a fish all year. You read that correct = all f*cking year! We are a day away from June and I was damn near on my longest blank of the last 25 years. This is due to the fact that due to a rather nasty…