Some dates for the weeks ahead

Happy New Year!

The first boat match of the year will be at Etive on the 1st of Feb. As well as the usual members boats there will also be a charter boat booked. Anyone interested in a place on the charter boat please speak to John Wilson.

The first shore match of the year will be in the Arbroath area on the 8th of February. Please contact Jamie if you are attending.

The AGM will be held at The Chase on Mason Hill on the 15th of January.

Also, Gordon's mate has some fishing gear for sale. Please contact Gordon directly.

Shimano TLD 15 with a full spool of 88lb Power Pro braid (£40). Reel
and braid used twice only. Practically brand new £85.

Penn Braid Special boat rod 20 - 30lbs and Ugly stick 12 -20lbs class
rods 30quid each. Both in good nick. If anyone wants the lot they can
have it for £140

Canal capers

Not much sea fishing going on in Martin's world at the moment so he had another crack at the canal predators in the midlands while visiting his friends

His mate dropped by with the kids for a look at what they have in the canal

They arrived about an hour after he extracted this from the canal. Martin's first Carp, what a kipper( the carp that is)

An easy 20 pounds it took him a merry dance and was a surprise bonus fish

Etive matches boat and shore

Jason Nicol won the last boat match of the season to be crowned club boat champ, well done Jason! Steven Toner and Darren Sloan were second and third.

Some pictures of Spurs  from the last shore match up there a couple of weeks ago.

Jamie putting up with Spurs as without easterlies he's nothing to chap on the heed in December.

Nico with really dark fish.

Shane having a wrestle with one.

One shore match left to be fished on the 14th of December venue TBC

Boat and shore calender round up

One match left in the shore calender with a couple of possibilities for a winner.

	50% +1 Totals
Stephen Kirk	120
Jamie Soons	107
Nico Wilson	106
John Wilson	103
Will Millar	91

The last boat match will be this weekend. It's a two horse race in what has been a difficult year with so many matches cancelled.

		Best 3	Total
1	Jason Nicol	85	108
2	Darren Sloan	83	83
3	Steven Toner	60	60
4	Les McBride	54	54
5	Gordon Goldie	53	53

Etive

Stu and Gordon made a trip up the well worn road for this time of year to Loch Etive.

A 10 pound 12 oz thornie for Stu was the pick of the bunch

Worth noting is this fish above previously caught by Dale Robertson in Nov 2011 at 5.3 it had moved up a couple of divisions to 7.6

Gordon giving a 6-12 Penn Waveblaster  a work out on a nice thornie. The best of the spurs went to about 4 pounds

Zander & Perch

Martin and his mate Scott made the trip south again to the Midlands for some canal action

Drop shot rigs and 3-4 inch soft plastics resulted in some  decent action

A view on current Bass stocks.....

A summer schoolie ready to go back. Some reading here

While it’s true some points could be debated it might make some interesting reading for anyone that would like to catch Bass in the years ahead.