2026 fishing season begins – open day event

Today, Sunday the 15th March we celebrated the beginning of the new season. We had a river bank inspection and a tidy up/litter pick with eight members in attendance. See…

Outings secretary – Bridget McGee

Bridget has completed the outings plan for season 2026, details have been sent to all members by mail along with instructions on how the reserve a place on any of…

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…