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Fife – Lochore Meadows Community Sport Hub

Posted on January 16, 2015 by gowens2013

Lochore Meadows Community Sport Hub are looking for enthusiastic and passionate anglers willing to pass on their skills and enthusiasm for angling to members of the local community See:      

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DAA AGM – 13th January 2015

Posted on January 16, 2015 by gowens2013

The Devon Angling Association held its Annual General Meeting on 13th January at the Royal Arms in Tillicoultry, and despite the foul weather and horrible road conditions there was a healthy turnout of members. David Mudie, our hard working and dedicated Secretary reported … Continue reading →

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DAA AGM

Posted on December 21, 2014 by gowens2013

Apologies a mistake was made in the previous post! The Devon Angling Association AGM will be held on the 13th January at 7.30pm at the Royal Arms, Tillicoultry  

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End of year news

Posted on December 13, 2014 by gowens2013

For most of us this is a time for banking the fire, dreaming of next seasons glories and tying those killer patterns that will land that dream trout …….. but our dedicated work party team are still out doing all sorts … Continue reading →

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Season end 2014 – update #1

Posted on November 3, 2014 by gowens2013

Walter Ramage sent through a couple of cracking photos of a Sea Trout and Salmon from the river The Salmon looks a cracking fit fish (judging by the Walter’s boot width!). Not being a Salmon expert I often wondered if some … Continue reading →

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Seasons end 2014

Posted on November 2, 2014 by gowens2013

Friday saw the end of the 2014 season. The rain had arrived properly over the previous week creating the first big spate leaving debris high up the bank: This finally brought some fresh fish in to the river, literally just … Continue reading →

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River Forth Fishery Trust – FINNS update

Posted on October 28, 2014 by gowens2013

FINNS you may ask? Well this is the Forth Invasive Non-Native Species programme run by the River Forth Fishery Trust, dealing with likes of Giant Hogweed, Japanese Knotweed, Himalayan Balsam, Mink etc etc They are a small team who with the … Continue reading →

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October update

Posted on October 24, 2014 by gowens2013

After one of the longest dry spell in living memory, we are at last beginning to see the weather breakdown and some much needed extra flow in the river. We will have to wait and see if it will be … Continue reading →

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2014 Catch Returns

Posted on October 7, 2014 by gowens2013

In addition to the excel/word forms for Salmon & Sea Trout returns, we have added a simple Brown Trout catch return form. https://devonanglingassociation.org.uk/2014-catch-returns/ Hopefully by next season I will have figured out how to do more complicated forms so all … Continue reading →

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The 2014 trout season is over

Posted on October 6, 2014 by gowens2013

So that is the 2014 trout season over! Glenquey season finished last week with a number of reports of great fishing, indeed one member became so besotted he visited every day for the last couple of weeks of the season. … Continue reading →

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