Trossachs, 20 September 2019
An Indian summer day with Jimmy. Tricky conditions. Fish feeding on parachuting spiders and beetles.
An Indian summer day with Jimmy. Tricky conditions. Fish feeding on parachuting spiders and beetles.
A much argued topic is that of, “Is it a sea trout or a brown trout?” The first problem is that they are all the same fish: Salmo trutta. Stock a river in Patagonia with brown trout and come back 10 years later and you will find sea trout. Strip a hen sea trout and…
A week of very unsettled weather, with wet days, sunny days, windy days, calm days, hot days, cold days, a day when we had to get off quick half way through… everything under the sun. Not unexpectedly, the fishing was a mix of good, bad and indifferent. Forty five fish for the week – about…
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…
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.