Another great day on the Tweed day two of our GAIA meeting. Brilliant weather sunshine strong wind, very bright and cold, 60 GAIA members and guests assembled for a day of development and fun. Further successes from yesterday were Dudley Hosfield and John Symonds GAIC Salmon, Richard Jacques, Mike Lonsdale GAIC Trout congratulations to them all […]
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Well the weekend has now arrived and we are on the banks of the Tweed at Tweedswood near Melrose. What a fantastic river the Tweed is and what a beautiful fishery. GAIA members from all over the country and Ireland North and South, have collected to carry out assessments of new members and to develop their own
I was looking for some razor sharp scissors for my fly tying. I tried out several makes but struggled with them all, then a friend handed me a pair of sixth finger scissors from a business called singlebarbed.com. A quick search on the Internet revealed a company in California, these were the very ones and at
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I was at the lake of Menteith last Sunday for a meeting. The lake was still very much iced over and with night time temperatures every day of late at -6 degrees it looks touch and go unless we get a break in the weather with some breeze to break up the ice. The Lake
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My fishing obsession where did it all begin? On the banks of the River Teme at Powick just outside of Worcester is where it flourished. I suppose it really started with the sticklebacks in the pond at Malvern Park and then when I was old enough to travel by bus to the River Teme. It
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