JUNE OUTING

this months outing dates are a bit more scattered than normal due to various circumstances and a open comp landing on the same date as our planed second trip,so dates have had a wee shuffle to let members wanting to fish the open comp do so without losing a chance to fish outing?
sunday 15th june(myself,robbie and hopefully a couple others are fishing this date)
sunday 22nd june(mathew,allan,hairy and hopefully a few others will make this date?)
saturday 28th june(rab and anyone else that never made the first dates will make it?)
hopefully these dates will suit holidays,work patterns etc,meet at DRUM TAKEAWAY 8am all dates,fish till 5pm.
good luck and tight lines all fishing outing and any members making the comp.

a good night for neil.

the p.b.s keep coming lately,well done to neil tulloch on his new p.b 18lb+ fish last weekend,superb mate.hope to get a photo soon?

couple of fly p.b.s

well done to robbie and nathan who both upped there personal bests on the fly last week,i hope to get some more details and photos soon?

JUNE MEETING

just a reminder that june's meeting is on TUESDAY 3rd june.8pm at the clachnaharry inn,inverness

MAY OUTING

this months outing is an overniter,saturday 24 and sunday 25th,we are meeting at the mountain cafe,aviemore at 8am saturday morning and taking it from there,lets hope for a good turn out with a few new faces too?this is a points counter and both days are included.
tight lines to all fishing.

membership increase

the club would like to wish a warm welcome to new members bruce florence(inverness).kevin stewart(lhanbryde).andrew grant(kieth).lee collins(gorthleck).brian macdonald(laggan).and of course our first outwith member frank sanders(liverpool).
hope we get to meet some of you this coming weekend on our next outing?

fly on mentieth

would like to thank dave macfluff and the p.f.f.a for giving robbie and myself the opportunitie to fish the lake of mentieth for pike on the fly,the first time ever the fisherie has let pike flyfishers on the lake,so a wee bit of history in the making.we never bagged any monsters but had great sport with the jacks.great sport,great banter with some great guys.

above is robbie with a nice 7lbr.

allan wins the open

well done to club member allan stewart who took first place in the inverness open comp today with this fine fish and new p.b of 20.12lbs(superb mate!)allan also had a fish of 4lbs.second place went to club member george cassles with fish of 13.01lbs and 5lbs and third place to comp newcomer kevin stewart with a fish of 1.9lbs.
a big thanks to all that turned up on the day,the staff at the lovart arms and all the club members that donated prizes for the raffle and gave up time to run the event.
i would like to think another successfull day with 5 possible new members.hope every one enjoyed themselfs and see you all at the next one.

rab adds to his tally of twentys

rab hay adds to his tally of twentys and also a new p.b. with a superb fish of 20.06lbs.this came in a superb day which saw rab and ewen land and safely return 7 fish each,well done lads.more ammo for the club mag

FOR SALE

guys i have for sale 2 still boxed fox eos bite alarms,cost £44.99 each will sell to club members for £30 each. NOW SOLD
also have some very nice,big padded unhooking mats(brand new)£5 each to club members.ideal for bank or boat.STILL HALF A DOZEN LEFT

MEETING THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT

just a wee reminder guys,can you please bring any raffle prizes for the open comp along if possible and your keep sacks for swapping.
thanks in advance.

yet another p.b

a cracking 24.01lbs,what a superb weekend,we will do a wee article for club mag just to fill you guys in on the crack.

new p.b for rab on the fluff

club chairman and r.o. rab hay improved his p.b on the fly to just over 10lbs on a fly he tied himself,a big well done rab.
this comes after a superb weekend rab and myself had,with rab landinding 13 fish from 7.07lbs to 19.08 lbs.at least 9 of these fish came between 4.30 am and 8.30 am,so very little sleep for us.
myself,i managed 7 fish with one being a new p.b of 24.01.
one of the best fishing sessions we have had with just over 233lbs of fish landed and safely returned between us.

what a day

a new p.b for me at 22.8lbs,as well as fish of 18.9lbs,17.3lbs and 8.3 lbs.julie also got her new p.b of 9.8lbs.superb day.

KEEP SACK SWAP

guys if possible can you bring your keep sacks in to the next meeting(7th may)and have them swaped for new ones,the reason for this is we can use the tagged ones for our open comps,we have 14 new ones so theres enough to go round.
thanks in advance.

some dates for the dairy

• next outings(april) are the 20th and 27th april,but some of us plan to fish a near by water the day before i.e 19/20th or 26/27th,any one needing info or directions give robbie a shout,and anyone cant make it let robbie know as he is sorting permits out for us too.

next meeting(may)wednesday may 7th,8 pm at clachnaharry inn,inverness.
next open comp.sunday may 11th
first club overniter(may) saturday 24th through to sunday 25th

APRIL MEETING

aprils meeting will be wednesday 2nd of april at the CLACHNAHARRY INN,8 pm all welcome.
"new members always welcome,so if your interested in joining us pop along and meet us?"

glasgow angling centre club book account

guys just to let you all know,we now have a discount club book account set up at the glasgow angling centre,basicly if your buying from the store you dont get discount BUT now if you buy from the store and ask them to enter amount you spend into the inverness ra74 club book,what they then do is note the amount members spend over the year and we get 10%back in gifts or vouchers to use as prizes for comps/presentation nights etc,so if we spend say £1000 in the store over the 12 months as club members we get back £100 worth of gifts or vouchers.the book is set to be cashed in mid january each year in time for future presentation nights.
other regions have used this system for a while now to great effect so its win win situation for our club now also.

march outing

the dates for this months outing are sunday 16th and sunday 23rd march,meeting at 8am at tarvie snack bar,good luck to all.

mick brown night

just like to say a big thank you to sandy and the guys from RA93 for making us feel so welcome on our recent visit to north lanarkshire for the mick brown talk and slide show.
what a fantastic night,with myself,ewen,robbie,tia and julie attending.must say mick brown is a great ambassador to pike fishing and the pac,not only a great talk but signing books,having photos taken and just getting the crack with folk a real down to earth gentleman with seemly endless energy,some photos to appear in tia's next mag.
also a great social event with 155 pikers from all over scotland attending was great meeting guys and catching up with some that have not seen in a while.