A small outing to start with – only 7 of us – and smaller by the end – only 3 of us survived, thanks to the weather! In the middle of a very long, warm, wet spell, it was a dry, cool start, but the forecast rain for later arrived early afternoon, and we got…
Three days with Jimmy, trying for salmon and sea trout. One salmon hooked and lost. Another salmon raised and not hooked, a few half chances of sea trout… and nothing landed bigger than a 10 oz brownie. Water at 19 C, may have been a factor. Thundery weather may have been a factor. Being bad…
An influx of painted lady butterflies appeared in north Edinburgh, today. Never seen them in numbers here before. They were drawn to lavender plants at the edge of Victoria Park, giving me a chance to get some shots. Quite skittish. Doubt they would have let me get close enough with the macro lens, but I…
Mayfly action – who’d have thunk it!
A June day with John Wastle, looking for mayfly feeders. The early cloud quickly burned away to give us a scorcher! Then a day beginning of August. Still a few mayfly about and fish looking for them. However, most of the fish were lying deep in Gateside, due to the previous week’s heatwave.
A blustery, cool day, with Martin Wigglesworth. Very little mayfly to be seen.
This 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday session is our only Menteith outing that coincides with the best of the mayfly hatch period. I had been out just 3 days before, and had fantastic sport, thanks to the appearance of egg-laying mayfly spinners in the afternoon. I was hoping for the same again, but it…
