Aye, so there’s a burn within 10 minutes walk from the in laws house. It is actually the same burn that I fish downstream. I actually made some plans to fish it at the end of last season. Now, when I say “fish it” what I actually mean is wander down and have a few…
New stuff.
I just don’t get it – while everyone is out buying new rods and reels I just buy some essentials. A new 4 weight fly line, a new fly box and some polaroids – the polaroids have got some magnification built in to help the eyesight – to be fair I am turning 50 this…
Winter memories – summer bites?
Who remembers the summer?
Wee urban burns and future plans.
It seems that every year the season gets shorter and shorter and the list of stuff that I want to do gets longer. This year has been particularly hard as I just discovered my thyroid has gone kaput and has been that way for quite some time – I now have a reason as to…
Lining up the excuses…
We got to the river between 6pm and 7pm. We lined up all the reasons as to why it was going to be a good evening session. Turned out that apart from a few inconsistent risers at 10-1030pm the place was totally dead. We decided on the classic the conditions were “too perfect” as an…
Evening Session
So I headed out for a few hours – it was a reasonable evening and despite the fact that a couple of buddies had been out on the Saturday with no results I was quietly optimistic. For one, there had been a little rain that seemed to have freshened things up and cooled the water…
Picture Dump
Heading out tonight for an evening session!
Coronation Celebrations!
I decided to celebrate the coronation bank holiday by heading to the river first thing – it was pouring with rain and the temp hit double digits. Trout were rising as soon as I got there, however it looked like my curse was continuing, for the life of me I just could not get any…