It would appear that our own alistair stewart has achieved recognition at last for his Kelvin naratives http://urbanflyfisher.com go see in the Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123742286341478873.html
and then being spoke about on this radio show:http://ffotw.com/?page_id=451
:-)

Great for urbanflyfisher.com and for him

Blanefishing

Great news Alistair, and thoroughly deserved after all your hard work. Well done!!

I can't believe they mentioned the sanitary towel pool!!

Alex

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Alistair hits the Wall Street Journal. Way to go.

He may as well. It's not like it's going to give urban rivers an image problem they don't already have.

The key is to make people realize what an asset these rivers can be made into once again if some dedicated people just clean them up.

Grouse

It was I who named it the sanitary towel pool, thus the surprise at seeing it mentioned in such a high-profile publication!

As it happens, there is a dedicated organisation called FORK (Friends of the River Kelvin) who do some fantastic work clearing the banks of rubbish, shopping trolleys, and any other nasties they might find!

Thanks to the efforts of these guys and many other concerned fishers and wildlife enthusiasts, the Kelvin is recovering well. We even have a reasonable run of Salmon nowadays. Otters and Kingfishers are regularly seen along its banks. How many urban rivers can say that!!

The river flows past my house and my office, affording me some nice 'lunchtime sessions' as well as quick getaways whenever the mood takes me.

Although it gets called the 'smelly kelly', I would not have the fishing opportunities I do without it. I'm sure many other city-dwellers could say the same.

Alex

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I see, BB. I thought you were worried about it creating an image problem and setting back the tourist board's efforts to market the new eco-tourism destination that is Glasgow.

Kind of funny to see your pool name stuck. You know those maps they have of the classic salmon rivers of Scotland where they have all the pools labeled? I wonder if in 100 years someone will be looking at the map of the Kelvin. . .

Grouse

Funny you should say that - myself and a few other kelvinators are getting together a map with the unique named pools on the River Kelvin Forum

http://urbanflyfisher.com/forum/the-...on-the-kelvin/

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Alistair,

Please tell me that when the names are all settled on, you'll put together a map that looks like these:



The potential for the illustrations in the margins is almost unlimited.

Grouse

one in particular springs to mind:

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