Welcome to our website. This is aimed primarily to members and friends of our club and those who take an interest in preserving the health of our waters
The 2010 season is proving to be one of our better years - between our club members winning trophies all around them, excellent turnouts for our river competitions and a large 4lb trout caught on fly in our club waters. The club made its inaugural participation in this year's Scurlogstown Olympiad, which was held in the Porchie Fields, Trim on Sunday 20th June. The club put on a fabulous display of specimen fish and old angling memorabilia kindly loaned by club members. Full report on event can be read here. Scroll through the photos below and get a sense of the occasion! The competition season is in full swing, with the second last evening competition scheduled for this Friday 9th July.. Congratulations to Robert Smith on winning last week's Pat Peppard Cup. Angler of the Year will be awarded at the end of the season to the club member who has the heaviest aggregate of fish weighed in over the competitions. Also there will be an award for the angler with the heaviest trout weighed in over the 6 competitions. More details re competitions here. Fishery development: If you do take a trout from the river, we are keen to gather some scale samples for genetic screening. Get in touch with either Tommy Keoghan or Paul French who have scale sample envelopes which we are using to send to the laboratory. Scales should be taken at the side of the dorsal fin and record length, weight and location where trout was caught. Learn more about our fishery plans here. Your club officers and committee have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to develop the angling facilities on our club waters. Specifically access to waters with best quality styles and maintaining overhanging bushes etc.. has been an ongoing task - although by now we have most of the styles required in place, with special thanks to our secretary Pat O'Toole. If you would like to volunteer a day or two clearing the banks with your club, please contact us and we will let you know when we are heading out. And we have a bit of fun too!!.. The club made a presentation to retired secretary, Gerry Lee, in recognition of his long service and invaluable contributions. Late night reminiscing ensued after the presentation in the Bounty Bar....  | Your opinions are valued - that's why we have created a Members Forum - share your views and lets encourage a wider debate among our members. Many of you have returned your forms with details of your mobile phone numbers and email addresses. So if you would like to be contacted (not too frequently!) please send your details to our Secretary, Pat O'Toole.  Thanks to Denis O'Donovan who provided these photos of the Pike Competition held on 18th October - despite no fish caught, everyone enjoyed the day and which was fished in excellent conditions. For more details of these photos visit our gallery.  Another successful AGM, chaired by our chairman Joe O'Donnell, was held on on Friday night where a healthy debate ensued on the best way forward to manage our club waters. Details regarding the proposed rehabilitation work on the Tremblestown River was discussed and suggestions from the meeting to conduct another survey of our fish stocks was taken on board. Mr. Paddy Conneff board member of the Eastern Fisheries Board gave a salutary warning about invasive species, which threaten our national waters - further details can be found here. The officers and committee were re-elected. |
