Dear Members,

Thank you for your continued support and membership of the River Kelvin Angling Association.

Over the past 16 years, the current volunteer administration has worked hard to bring about significant improvements to our waters. We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved during this time, including:

• A Thriving Trout Population: We campaigned early on for a no-kill/no-stocking policy. Today, we have a very healthy ecosystem where specimen trout are caught every season.
• Environmental Stewardship: We regularly liaise with SEPA regarding pollution incidents and collaborate with the Clyde River Foundation to monitor fly life, as well as trout and salmon stocks.
• Active Governance: We organized clean-up days, successfully amended association rules (as voted by you), strictly enforced those rules to protect our waters, and always aimed to keep lines of communication open with our members.
• Membership: We implemented a new membership system whereby we retained the whole of the membership money instead of paying a commission to shops that sold them. We also organised opening day ceremonies which have sadly not taken place in the last few years.

However, as you may have noticed from the lack of Annual General Meetings recently, things have slowed down. While this pause began during the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality is that the association is currently being kept afloat by just two people: Paul Reid and myself.

Paul handles the heavy lifting of issuing permits and negotiating our annual lease, while I manage member inquiries and run the website. Balancing these duties alongside full-time jobs, young families, and navigating some recent health challenges has made it incredibly difficult to keep the momentum going.

While we could continue to simply “trundle along” in this reduced capacity, we don’t believe that does justice to the association or its members. To secure the future of the RKAA, it is time to bring in fresh energy.

We are actively seeking expressions of interest from members for the following roles:

• Chairman
• Vice Chairman
• Treasurer
• General Committee Members

Please be assured that stepping up does not mean stepping into the unknown. Both Paul and I will remain on the committee to provide full support, guidance, and a smooth handover to the new volunteers.

Once we have received enough expressions of interest, our plan is to call an AGM so the membership can formally vote in the new committee.

If you care about the future of the river and are willing to volunteer some of your time, please get in touch via the Contact Us page on our website. Please ensure you include your permit number in your message as only current members can put themselves forward.

Thank you again for your time and your dedication to the river.

Warm regards,

Alistair

Hello everyone – permits are now on sale and have been for a few weeks if you have not noticed.

As usual we will be collecting the cash to pay the current lease – if anyone has any burning questions then you can always use our contact page.

Hello all – just to confirm that as usual the 2021 permits are not currently for sale – the permits go on sale after the AGM. We are currently working out how to hold an AGM this year and we will let you know what the decision is.

Many thanks!

Hiya – if you fancy some River Kelvin chat do not forget that you can find other members over on the River Kelvin Fishers Facebook group.

Other folk like the Kelvin so much they have set up their own group which is fair enough, however if you wish to ask any questions or wish some point clarified we are always open for discussion.

Check it out here : River Kelvin Fishers

Hiya – we are in the process of adding the ability to buy your permit through this site – we will let you know when it is live.

Alistair

The catch returns page is now live – you can find it HERE or use the menu at the top of the page.

Remember, there is a penalty if you do not submit your catch returns. members that fail to submit catch returns are treated as new members and would be required to pay the new member supplement.

Any questions ask through the contact form or the River Kelvin Fishers page where all the action happens.

It’s that time of the year again, it is the Kelvin opening ceremony ! We will be meeting in the Islay inn at around 1130 for a dram and breakfast and then at around midday we will be piped down the road to the river. We are probably the only club that has to stop at traffic lights !

Our Chairman Atkins will give a short speech and then we all get to laugh at him stumbling around trying to cast!

Please bring your wives and kids as it really is a nice couple of hours!

You can now do it here

I have decided to remove the function of the forum from this site as quite frankly it does not get used. We get more people contacting us through the facebook page now that it makes sense to just have it all over their. Consequently please join our brand new official facebook group called the:

River Kelvin Fishers

It is the only place that you will get honest to goodness members giving advice and of course access to the committee .

I will delete the forum in a couple of days.

Cheers!

Alistair