Paul phoned me last night – can you have a look at the Kelvin website, something is wrong with the shop. Bloody hell, the whole thing was buggered. I had to stick on a default theme and reinstall some stuff and thankfully folk can now buy permits through the site. All you have to do…

At this time last year I was down south a bit – not far, just down in the Lake District. What I noticed at that time was the fact that it was a couple of degrees warmer and it felt like spring was about to be sprung.  One of the signs that really struck me…

Thank goodness – January is the most horrible month there is. Freezing cold and miserable. Then it gets to February and check this nonsense out:

When I first started regularly taking photos of my fish for this blog it was with a wee digital camera – it was a little thicker than a credit card and took alright photos – good enough for the blog anyway. Over the years my digital cameras changed – they were never expensive however most…

Walking around with my new fishing vest on like a boss!

This is an awesome wee book for newbies as well as folk that just like reading about some new “old school” tactics. You can buy it from Amazon here. Synopsis Small stream flyfishing is a rewarding but demanding sport that requires skill, an understanding of successful tactics, and knowledge of the quarry. This revised edition…

Unlike some folk I do not enjoy going for a wander along the Kelvin during the winter – It just looks depressingly dead and the trout seem like a distant memory. The water is always dark and knowing there are no coarse fish worth going after, the river just seems at a total slumber. My…

Bloody hell that was a quick season.  One minute it was May and I was hanging around enjoying every other midweek day off and suddenly I am looking at new waistcoats for Christmas as my trusty old Hardy waistcoat has somehow shrunk over the last few years.  I had also started to use my chest…