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• Dust
• Competing interests
• A short trot over the hills
• Tamanawis and The Wogan
• The Cube Returns
• The Lost Loch, Part II: Bog Trotting and Burnt or Raw
• First dusting…
• Another short trouty video
• Creaky knees
• Stormy weather
• Old trout memories
• Here, birdie birdie
• Blue skies bring autumn
• Well I never…
• The Lost Loch, Part I: Plans, Discarded Gear and the GFWTSD
• Thoughts of a fly fisherman’s wife: Part I, The Fishing Glossary
• Australis
• The beginning of the end of the season..
• Waves
• A quiet afternoon by the loch
• Pink salmon
• Slide into summer
• Closer to home…
• Cutthroats of the Puget Sound
• Intermission..
• Gone fishing..
• The right moment…
• Peche a la mouche en Ardeche
• Good Friday fishing
• April, no showers
• Salmon farms..
• This evening..
• Season opener
• Tonight
• Pearl mussels
• Worth a quick look
• The true source of the River Tay
• Patterns
• Foolhardy
• More winter fun
• More white stuff
• News interruption
• When the rivers freeze over…
• Tamanawis = … (are you joking..?)
• A light dusting
• Shrinking fish (in the winter)
• The oldest organisms in the world
• Season’s past
• Autumn comes…
• It’s fly fishing, but not as you know it…
• The Cobbler and His Mist
• It’s that sort of time…
• Day and night
• The haaf netters
• Pentlands by twilight
• Red sky
• A small stream of quiet light
• The rivers, the lochs…all of them..
• Shackleton’s whisky
• Evening
• New/old
• High up
• Summer make rain
• Catching the Impossible
• Summer make good
• Blanks, storms and 3lbers
• Spring cleaning.. sort of
• When enough is enough
• Not long now…
• Spring fly tying
• Assynt and the North West Highlands
• Book of the week (Radio 4)
• 3 bits of rock
• Up North
• Baldness is good for you!
• Glen Coe
• Back online
• What happens when you cross a rich moron with a normal moron?
• The anti-buttock
• Ben Vorlich bin better
• Martian landscapes..
• The Secret Life of Chaos
• Snow joke
• More snow
• Snow glorious snow
• New year whiteout
• Happy year’s end
• Grayling glory
• Writer’s block
• Taimen
• Season’s end
• Trout mechanics
• Illusions
• BBC Brown Trout
• Summer walk
• Fishing in Wild Places
• The Loch of Trees
• Summer trout
• The new Tamanawis photo gallery
• Brilliant fly tying videos
• A new tree!
• Long sky at night, grayling delight
• Evening, Gullane beach
• The birds and the trees
• April shennanigans
• Spring
• Fishy stuff
• All the colours..
• Fish!
• Whisky of the month III (February-March): Lagavulin Distiller’s Edition
• Just around the corner, with Norman MacCaig
• Well I never… fishing in school
• Connect me to your leader
• Last chance in a million years
• Must see BBC film (the Pacific salmon run)
• Grayling, no grayling
• Going fishing…
• Of things that go bump in the river
• The River Why (on earth are you making this film?)
• Whisky of the month II (January): Old Pulteney 17 Y/O
• The Drive
• Wednesday evening photo
• Border wanderings
• Wanted: for crimes against camera bags
• W. H. Murray tells it like it is
• New year, new layout
• Whisky of the month…
• Winter fly tying, part 1
• W. H. Murray quote II
• Autumn colours
• W. H. Murray
• Sounds
• Busy times…
• The birds and the leaves
• Salmon in the middle of Paris?
• Red sky at night…
• No time to write…photo delight
• Rain rays over Argyll
• Wolfes go fishing
• Catch magazine
• 4 boats and a skull
• 20,000
• Wet weather musing
• A new blog to read
• Willian Joseph chest pack review finally published..
• The Old stiffy comes good
• From the sublime to the ridiculous
• How to fish, and write amazing books
• Of vests and man-bags
• Sailing the Sound of Mull
• A Northern return
• Tattie fields, trees and wafting tales
• Bang for your buck
• The Duck Swims Off
• The Diary of Future Past
• Sheep!
• Wonderful fishing quote of the day..
• A School of Trout Released
• Ansel Adams
• Photography
• One of those sunsets…
• Tough stuff spirit
• Frosty the Tree
• Catcher in the Hookeye
• Gallery and about
• The Pool
• The Quest, Part II: Subversion & Solutions
• The Robin
• Review of life
• Books
• Imag(ine) that..
• Goodbye Blogger..!?
• More power
• Gary Borger videos
• Northern Times Part I: The Blurb
• The Quest, Part I: Obsession and It’s Consequences
• Literary Masters
• Summer on Clyde
• Blue boat
• Homecoming and the Stand of Majesty
• Freedom Over the Water
• Why I Love Britain
• Playing God
• Linking the world
• The Black Burn
• The Afterglow
• The Flow
• July beauty
• Hair of the fish
• Us, the anglers
• Mojo
• A Spring Submariner
• Back from the dead
• A sledghammer and a pavement
• Top 5 Things Not To Do in the Close Season
• Loop the loop
• Ben MORE (up and down than is healthy)
• CBS
• Isolation Shepherd
• The Stand of Majesty
• Never Bored
• Heading to 100
• Firing blanks
• Reel to Reel
• The Ice Fly
• The Bee Man
• The Lanyard of Power
• The Bomb, Volume II
• Simple But Good – the Saga of the Sage
• Death bombs and the end times
• The Perfect System
• White-outs and a lochan
• 5 Little Pieces of Joydom
• The Drug
• Tamanawis does butts
• The Disease
• A load of bullshit
• 77ft and counting
• Walking into winter
• Change the rules
• Bob’s your uncle
• Bugs
• A day in the hills
• Put this in your pipe and smoke it..
• For the sake of argument
• Men of action
• Casting shenannigans
• The promise of a new season
• The crazy game
• Three months ahead of schedule
• The beginning of the end
• Cowboys raiding the North
• The glory of North
• All things come to an end
• Offski
• Taking over the internet
• Muddlers at dusk
• Once in a red moon
• Mornings and formulas
• Anyone for a bath?
• The trip that was, wasn’t and then was (Part II)
• The trip that was, wasn’t and then was (Part I)
• Todays guest is…
• Small streams, small minds
• Nymphing gadymphing (or part II)
• Nymphing smymphing
• Foreigners catching all our fish… ;)
• The longest day
• Frustration stations
• There be lunkers in there
• A little loch action
• Computers bugs and fishing tugs
• Frigging computers
• Fishing a brook
• A Nod to a Beautiful Fish
• Guestbook
• Lovely day
• Tricky
• Singaporean leaders
• The weekend!
• Fishy photos
• An interesting day
• The new season
• Day two
• First post