Bob Assynt, Scotland, Wild Fishing in Scotland 5 Comments
Corporal Johan Tittenstein Graf von Klink is a no-show for the 2013 fishing holiday due to expending all his annual leave on a 3 week ‘strength through joy’ honeymoon, or something like that. This left the rest of us all wandering around in a state of confusion unable to function without his rod of iron [...]
Bob Assynt, Scotland, Wild Brown Trout, Wild Fishing in Scotland 4 Comments
Introduction So, it’s that time of year again. Holiday over, all that remains is to once again share my experiences with fellow pilgrims that are repeatedly drawn back to Assynt for that all too brief escape from the dismal reality of modern life . With each passing year it grows increasingly painful to drive out [...]
Bob Assynt, Fly Tying, Scotland, Wild Fishing in Scotland 2 Comments
Almost there, few days to go. Assynt 2012 is about to get underway. Sweet Christmas where are the years going?! Anyway, I’ve tied up a few stalwarts and a couple of new and untested flies as a token gesture towards preparation. We have some Sedgehogs, a Mayfly, couple of Bob’s Bob flies, a Silver Dabbler [...]
Bob Assynt, Scotland, Wild Brown Trout, Wild Fishing in Scotland 17 Comments
Be prepared to climb off that grammar outrage bus and enter a world where tenses past, present and future merge before your eyes…a world where the concept of a blog becomes bloated like a festering, decomposing corpse of literary standards. My wasted years. My stifled creativity, my hatred of mushrooms, fighting dogs and flour-coated baps..all [...]
Bob Assynt, Scotland, Wild Brown Trout, Wild Fishing in Scotland 2 Comments
“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Now that is an interesting number, for by a curious coincidence there are approximately a hundred billion stars in [...]
Bob Assynt, Scotland, Wild Brown Trout, Wild Fishing in Scotland 4 Comments
Well, we got back yesterday from our annual fishing holiday, man it’s depressing to leave Assynt to face the day to day shyte of the 9 to 5 existence. It was possibly one of our best trips away, weather was excellent, plenty of fish caught and the cottage we booked was bang on. I kept [...]