While it may feel like winter still has it grips on us, I am pretty confident that more than one angler will be wandering about home at first light in the morning gathering their early season gear and thermals!

While Monday brought back a real taste of winter with it’s prolonged rain through sleet to snow, it thankfully broke the back of February’s prolonged drought. The river today was running at a nice height

Bryan our President was up at Glenquey on Tuesday making sure that it was ready for the new season. He was able to report that the road to the car park is free of snow and that the snow on the banks is manageable!

|As reported earlier we have had a real challenge with getting permits to the outlets (due to staff illness with our long time printing contractor). Permits have now been distributed to all outlets (with the exception of Carronshire which we hope will be sorted asap)

It is worth highlighting the series of competitions being run by Fishing Around The Forth relevant to DAA members specifically the largest brown trout and sea trout caught in the District.

https://www.fishforth.org/fishing-competitions-2023/

Please read the conditions carefully.

Judging by some of the late season Brown Trout caught and seen in 2022 a DAA angler may be in with a chance in that category!

As ever our trusty work party team have been out and about clearing the winters debris ……. hard and cold work for gents all at least 65+ years old (I’m being polite the average age of our work parties is probably well in excess of 70+). By way of example, last week they were clearing a large fallen tree from the river :

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Anyone interested in helping please get in touch, the DAA have no shortage of projects!

On behalf of the committee can I wish our members and visitors the very best wishes for an excellent 2023 season and thanks for your continuing support!

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