The other day I had the pleasure of a days salmon fishing on the famed Lanrick beat of the River Teith. Lanrick is just upstream of Deanston famous for its distillery. The Teith itself is a great salmon and sea trout river with the added bonus of being just 40 mins from Glasgow and …
A couple of weeks ago it was the penultimate day of our winter calender for the fly dressers. At very short notice we managed to secure a demonstration from Jim Miln of the Alloa Angling Shop. Jim has developed some very effective realistic wings which are now supplied by Veniards and are called oddly enough “Jims Wings”. These wings …
A couple of weeks ago at the Milngavie fly dressers we demonstrated hair wing salmon flies as a few of the guys are regular salmon fishers on the Tay and had requested several patterns. If you look into my salmon fly boxes the flies tend to be along a distinct colour theme, orange yellow and black …
We had a very enjoyable evening at the Milngavie Fly Dressers when Craig MacAdam, Scottish Director of www. Buglife.org.uk came. He gave us a very enlightening presentation of the food that trout and grayling eat on the Clyde and surrounding area. Have to say that I learned a great deal about Plecoptera, Trichoptera, other bugs …
The Milngavie Fly Dressers got back into action on the 10th January and as it was appropriate and seasonal we spent a couple of hours doing a demonstration of grayling flies. Kenny Sichi tied a collection of nymphs and Alberto Laidlaw tied a few dry flies. Here they are: …