any update on Bruce Sandisons next edition of rivers and lochs
Dear Andypandy
Now up to 190,000 words and on the home straight - the winning line is 350,000 words - and believe me, I really, really, really want to cross that line as soon as I can.
No violin's, please, I know that I shouldn't have joined if I couldn't take a joke, and all about the heat in the kitchen and so on. I am doing the best that I can.
But it is kind of you to ask and it mightily helps to keep me focused on this terrifying, yet amazingly exciting task.
Best wishes
Bruce
Although a bit set in my ways this weather, i miss having mine at hand for reference. I had the most recent edition till early last season.
A mate was working in Sweden at that time (Trollhatten, that near you Runarsson ?) Anyway he gets to know these mad keen anglers in a pub who were planning a fishing trip over here.
In a moment of patriotic generosity off went the book for their perusal.
Look forward to the new one.
Cheers,
EW
thanks Bruce for letting us know how you are getting on with the book cheers andy
Bruce, if extra encouragement is required...I think we all owe you a debt of gratitude for putting out the previous versions.
I graduated from stocky dubs by getting the first edition out of Perth library and reading about a wee loch called Loch Eigheach that sounded like my kind of place. I've barely fished a rainbow water since. The first port of call on any exploratory jaunt in your wee book.
And, of course, the words, "nothing for the glass case but..." have entered our rich fishing vocabularly!
Keep yer lum reekin, and a dram to hand.
Bruce Sandison is the most significant Scottish / Scottish based angling writer of the past 30 years. His work has greatly increased awareness of our wonderful, genuine Scottish trout fishing heritage in times when supermarket style pile ?em high and sell ?em cheap rainbow trout fisheries have proliferated, promoting an environmentally unsustainable and lowest common denominator masquerade that has about as much in common with real trout fishing as dangling a baited hook in an aquarium.
Bruce,
I bought a paperback copy of the first edition as a teenager on a dire family holiday in Inverness and not only did it save me from the slow onset of brain death with the folks on that holiday but opened up a whole new world of hitherto closed angling options and information. I think I read it cover to cover straight off (got to say that, as a novel, it doesn't have much in the way of plot development but you just couldn't beat the background setting :lol:) and in the years afterwards it was cherished literally to bits.
Since then I've always had a copy with me wherever I've been in the world and you've pointed me towards countless great days out up and down our country that I'll never forget. In planning troot hunting raids back home I just have to open your book, in conjunction with a map, and I'm immediately transported to a rough hillside path on my way into some remote lochan or other which I just know this time will produce that elusive 'glass-case specimen'. :)
Thanks for it all boss and keep up the good work.
Ian
Quote from: claretbumble on January 23, 2009, 10:32:33 AM
I agree with the sentiment, but if you'll forgive me, those 2 sentences are ripe for inclusion in Private Eye's "Pseud's Corner" or "OBN"! :crap
:biglaugh;
I recently caught a rogue goby by dangling one of Hans micro flees in the tank. Took about 2 hours and had him hooked 4 times.
Eventually caught him and punted him back into the Easthaven rockpool from whence he originally came.
A very satisfying bit of fly fishing.
Quote from: Pearly Invicta on January 22, 2009, 10:01:11 PM
Bruce, if extra encouragement is required...I think we all owe you a debt of gratitude for putting out the previous versions.
I graduated from stocky dubs by getting the first edition out of Perth library and reading about a wee loch called Loch Eigheach that sounded like my kind of place. I've barely fished a rainbow water since. The first port of call on any exploratory jaunt in your wee book.
And, of course, the words, "nothing for the glass case but..." have entered our rich fishing vocabularly!
Here here :applause, excactly the same case with me, I remeber my friend showing me this new book that he had bought, which kead to our brilliant trip into the Wild Lochs of Gairloch. Since then I have never had Rainbow trout slime on my hands !! I don't own a copy myself but will make sure I do when the new addition comes out.
Quote from: Steve on January 23, 2009, 09:34:37 PM
Without Trout lochs of Scotland I would still be fishing put and take.
There is one stockie bashing forum I know that gives Bruce Sandison a bit of a hard time (in his absence of course), snide comments, ridiculing fly choice suggestions etc etc.
Reading this thread, I wonder if it?s just a coincidence that Bruce?s writing has helped anglers move on from such places?
I owe the same debt of gratitude. Without Bruce, I would never have discovered a fraction of the lochs I have fished over the years. I can quote from memory, passages of the Trout Lochs of Scotland and see the photographs in my mind's eye. I gave away a dog eared edition of the book to a couple of guys up at Achiltibuie and thankfully later got an updated version to replace it.
Without having read Bruce I may well never have joined this forum and I would certainly have been a poorer man for that as well having missed out on visiting all those wonderful lochs in Assynt and the like.
Thanks, Bruce.
Alex
Quotethere would be a lot of poorer wild troot anglers out there if it was not for Bruce,s book ,a lot of people have a lot of memories that they would never have had if they hadn,t picked up the book myself included
Amen
Alex
My thoughts entirely many a night spent pondering over maps and referring back to the book ....mines in a fairly good condition
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Who is that on the cover lads? Ray Collier?
Alex
Quote from: claretbumble on January 24, 2009, 12:10:19 AM
Ray Collier? I went to school with a Ray Collier... brother was called Ian?
I've never met the man CB, so I don't know. I used to read a lot of articles by RC and at that time I think he had a big beard and was based in Lochinver, which make me think the photo on the cover may be him. He seems to be in Inverness area now... http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/raycollier/rss
Alex
Sure Bruce will inform us :)
Thanks Steve. It is funny how these daft questions niggle away at you over the years.
Alex
Hi Bruce what time scale do have for completion? Really looking forward to the revised edition. I do have a copy of your book and remember exactly where I purchased it. I got it from a wee shop in Braemar . Can't remember the name of the shop but what I do remember is that I purchased it after a day hillwalking up Lochnagar. I have planned many of my wild fishing days with the aid of your brilliant guide and also spent many a long hour on winters nights pouring over maps with your book visualising days in the wild come the summer.
Thanks!
Quotetell me in 10 years time how it tastes
Gav the very same as it was 20 years ago ....just like a bottle of TCP
The naivety of the beginner ...
One of my 1st posts on here was asking if it was recommended to pick up "Trout Lochs", local 2nd hand bookshop had it.
An invaluable reference, evangelical even.
My copy is currently in the hands of 2 Welshmen planning a trip to the hill lochs in May.
Willing purchasers of a new edition too.
Good luck with the new edition Bruce, and thanks for taking the time to do it.
Tony
Bruce has several great books, I noticed one second hand paperback Amazon a mere snip at over ?128.00 :shock:. I bet Bruce never got that for it. I'm just waiting for the new book with my brother so there's plenty on here alone out to purchase this.
I learnt about the book in the GAC several years back when they where singing its praises and rightly so!.
Sandy B.O.
Quote from: gavceltic on January 24, 2009, 02:51:48 AM
Im in the middle of "Tales of the loch" just now and will no doubt be posting something about it when im finished it, although im not in any hurry to finish it as it is so good, I have to limit myself to 1 or 2 chapters (lochs) per night just to make it last.
That's a cracker of a book, not only is it his best book in my opinion, it stands with the top half dozen of my all time favourites. I'm still after that Laidon trout!
i also have a copy of Bruce's book the "sporting gentlemans gentleman"a book in which he went round Scotland collecting stories and experiences from gillies and gamekeepers.full of interest and humor written in his inimitable style.a great read for anyone who enjoys Bruce's writing
cheers Garry
Sorry for the delay in responding. Yes, it is Ray Collier. He used to work with SNH and the pic is, I think, on Loch Sionascaig in the Inverpolly National Nature Reserve. Ray retired quite a few years ago, but still contributes to a number of publications on wildlife matters.
Looking forward to the new version !!!
Im in London today and on teh way down in between calls, contracts and customers i whipped out my copy of the Bible and had a flick through.
My boss asked "whats that you have there"
wouldnt you like to know.................