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Burnin' Love
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- Published on Friday, 28 June 2013 08:50
- Written by Bob Legget
There was a time when almost all young boys went fishing. This was mostly during school holidays and usually starting out on one of our abundant Scottish burns. Nowadays the early route into angling is typically via the stocked fishery which, I feel, gives the budding angler false aspirations of both ease and trout size.
Jam doughnuts and Brandy
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- Published on Saturday, 15 June 2013 15:32
- Written by Bruce Sandison
Normal people don't have my trouble. They climb straight to the top of a hill. Not halfway up, back to the bottom then up again; followed by three-quarters of the way up, halfway down, then back up again; an assault course, not a walk.
The Big Sedge
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- Published on Saturday, 04 May 2013 10:39
- Written by Allan Hutton
Phryganea Grandis is not a name many at my local loch will be familiar with as I’m probably correct in thinking that Latin is not the first language of your average angler in Lanarkshire.
Georgina Ballantine
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- Published on Friday, 03 May 2013 09:07
- Written by Bruce Sandison
The most famous woman angler of the last century is undoubtedly Georgina Ballantine. Her record 64lb Tay salmon has been the envy of male piscators ever since she caught it on October 7th 1922, and they have, not infrequently, attempted to play down and belittle her triumph in devious, male-like ways.
Up North
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- Published on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 08:55
- Written by Brian Morrison
I was twelve years old when my Uncle Ronnie first said to me “We'll get you up North next year”.
We were queueing in the fish and chip shop on our way home from an unsuccessful days fishing on one of the local put-and-take style fisheries which are scattered all over the central belt of Scotland. When I say we were unsuccessful, I of course mean me.