Loads of people are going on about this being the first week of the season – it does not look like it to me to be honest – I mean it is bloody freezing out there, well not freezing like -15 however a pretty chilly 8-10 degrees – and it has only been like that…
Tenuous Fishing Photos 10/52
Ha – you guys thought I had forgot eh? I thought for my tenth tenuous fishing pic I would post a pic that I took the other day and posted to twitter – it is a pic of a little burn I pass most days on the way to work and am sure it deserves…
Would you eat human flesh?
I mean seriously – lets say it was an experiment totally sanctioned by the health board right – lets say they needed a half dozen people to eat a slice of human flesh for some totally unknown reason – you are not actually told what the reason is other than the test is not whether…
Urban Fly Fisher on Twitter
I have decided to embrace the whole twitter revolution – witter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets – the main reason I am embracing it as I have a fancy new phone which allows me to use the service easily. I intend…
Tenuous Fishing Photos 9/52
I had to attend some training the other day in Clydebank – for those that do not know Clydebank is a pretty major town on the banks of the River Clyde of which the Kelvin is a tributary. Anyway, I was walking towards my destination and two fully grown deer datrted out across the road. It was…
Glasgow Angling Centre Opening Weekend – this weekend!
You know the trout season is just around the corner when the Glasgow Angling Centre have an opening day ..I was having a gander at the invited guests and guess who I spotted was missing That’s right – John Wilson will not be attending – that in itself should be a crowd pleaser considering he blanked…
El Conio The Magnificent
What do you get if you cross some first year art school students with some litter and a traffic cone? You get “El Conio The Magnificent” an explanation of how traffic cones end up in the River Kelvin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHPX-YvBD60 Oh to be a student again – it was a simpler time!
Tenuous Fishing Photos 8/52
Even better than actual fishing: Teaching my son to walk on weird Lanzarote grass. You can see more tenuous fishing photos here
Do you want to join my Urban Alliance?
This is a three part post – today the setup and later all going well will be the reveal – I will then give you a bit of time to think before I act. This will be a hard task my friends – I do not want to say at this stage what it is…
Fly Tying – Milngavie Style!
So I decided I needed some contact with other anglers and the best place for that was at the fly tying class along at Milngavie (rather than standing in the freezing cold chasing Grayling, some people might say actual fishing for a change) – an added bonus was that Jim from Palewatery was visiting to…