Category: Trips

The maintenance of dignity

Out of the main Brown Trout season I usually pop along to my “local”, Swanswater, if I need a quick Piscatorial fix. However, if you are a regular reader, which of course you will be, 😉 you will know that my Swanswater outings usually end in humiliation, for me rather than the fish.

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River Clyde

This page will cover what most people would refer to as the Upper Clyde, from near its source deep in the Borders to around Blantyre, South of Glasgow. Below this the river widens to become the Mid Clyde which while holding Trout and Coarse species, is probably more interest to the angler seeking Salmon and Sea Trout.

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Grayling Fishing Course with Hywel Morgan and John Emerson

I have posted already about the actual fishing part of my trip to Wales. I had a great time on the weekend though it was my second time on the course having attended the event in November last year which had much the same format. I felt that as a relative “newbie” to river fishing after a 30 year break and also never having fished for Grayling, that it would do me a lot of good in going last time.

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