Salmon Catch and release Guidelines

This was sent to us by Savills who act for the Crown as regards the Salmon and Sea trout fishing rights on our River Avon. The River Avon Federation (RAF)…

River Avon Update

George T and I took a walk down the River, from the quarry bridge down to the tail of the long pool on lower beat 4.I showed him the hole…

Beat 5 Top Gun

As the season reaches its end I have some pictures from beat 5 courtesy of Stephen Liddle who has had a superb season. As they say a picture, or six,…

LAC Open Day @ Millhall

14th September saw the LAC open day at Millwall. Here are the happy competitors at the end of a day where the water was fishing well and where everyone caught…

Harrys 9lb brownie

Yesterday’s club outing to Bowden Springs was pretty successful. Of the 9 members who attended, seven had fish. Top catch of the day was our VP, Harry Millar whose magnificent…

Catch and Release -Best practices

With our competition rules changing to offer more opportunity for our increasing numbers of anglers who use catch and release methods we have put together a simple advisory for catch…

Barbless flies

This service has been brought to our attention by one of our members and given we are trying to be more inclusive towards C&R fishing this might be of interest:…

River Pollution – what to do?

Last Saturday evening I popped down to the Quarry Bridge pool at around 20.30 with the thought to fish a Connemara black along the bedrock ledges in the hope of…

River Avon tourist

Lovely to see these moving freely about the River Avon, however I worry about how hungry it might be and how many of his pals he invites to dine?

Loch Rusky outing

A grand day for fishing, a little on the cool side with an ENE wind but plenty of sport. Four rods had approx twenty fish for the day. Here is…