Botanic Lights… and other stuff

Botanic Lights 2016 – Explore has been designed by leading Scottish lighting designer, Grant Anderson, working with composer, Claire Mackenzie, and projection designer, Ross Blair, to create an all-new journey of light around the Garden, themed around exploring regions of the world where the Garden’s plants and trees originate, including the US, China, Chile, Nepal…

Lake of Menteith 22 October, 2016

Last club outing of the season and, as has tended to be the case, we got reasonable conditions.  Decidedly cool, but decent cover, and light winds.  Dougie Skedd and I set out our stall to go looking for risers in the quiet corners with dry fly.  We found the quiet corners and we found the…

Buchanty 19 October 2016

I looked for a chance after the first decent rain of autumn – it was just over 0.4 m on the gauge.  This seemed an ideal height – and the water was very clear.  There weren’t big numbers of fish jumping, but for the first time I was seeing them get all the way up! …

Coldingham Loch, 09 October 2016

Distinctly cooler day than of late, but nice light wind and partial cloud cover made for a day of decent conditions.  With rising fish being seen, John Wastle and I set out with dries.  However, as has often been the case (for some of us) at Coldingham this season, the fish proved very tricky to…