River Kelvin Angling Association

Author: Alistair

  • 2013 Start of the Season Video

    We had a great start of the season celebration on Saturday, it was Baltic and nobody caught any fish. Consequently, the bottle of whiskey bought for the first Salmon caught was then downgraded to the first trout. Last time I seen it was when Paul Reid was sticking it back in his bag muttering something about how…

  • Opening Season Ceremony – 23rd March

    Unlike other clubs who get out there and freeze themselves with no hope of a fish in February we wait a few weeks until it has warmed up a tad and there is still no hope of a fresh fish but we may catch a trout. Consequently our annual opening day ceremony will be on…

  • Meeting Notes from the AGM 7th February 2013

    After a brief introduction and summary from the Chairman and Secretary, highlighting in particular: The acquisition of the lease for the Luggie. This has a lot of opportunity with regards to water quality and spawning for the whole system. Catch returns. Following the amnesty for late returns an extra 110 returns were submitted adding a…

  • Announcement regarding weekend incident.

    We are saddened to confirm there has been an accident involving one of our members whilst at the river.On Saturday a member tragically drowned whilst fishing at the Vet School. We are not able to give out any other details as quite simply we do not have them. We know the members name however we are…

  • First Fish of the Season…

    …and it is a Kelt.     David Brady caught this Kelt up at Balmore Road on the worm on the 15th February. Can we remind all anglers to be careful with handling kelts and to return them to the water as carefully as possible like David.

  • 2013 Newsletter

    Words from The Chairman As we near the start of another season for the River Kelvin Angling Association, I feel that it is useful to reflect on the season past, and give my views and thoughts on the successes, failures and expectations that the season brought. As is the norm for the Kelvin, spring fish…

  • Problems with contacting Paul Reid

    Chaps, I noticed the other day that some emails might not have reached Paul Reid in the last couple of months. This only effects emails that have been sent via people replying to the email newsletter and not to folk that have used the “contact us” form. Consequently, if you have sent an email and you have…

  • Seasons End – Catch returns required.

    Greetings chaps, The season has now ended and we hope you had a good one. Please remember to send us your catch returns – by far the easiest method is by doing so online here. Obviously nobody should be fishing the river however if you do see someone can you either telephone Paul Reid or James…

  • New News!

    Greetings, We hope you are having a nice productive start to your 2012 season, we are hearing of a few Salmon caught and returned as well as good trout fishing. It looks like a combination of not stocking, total catch and release for trout and the mild winter has already started to make an impact.…

  • A bridge has been built over the problematic ditch at the Balmore stretch!

    Paul, Jim, James and Alistair headed up to the Balmore stretch on Sunday to build a bridge over the problematic ditch. The farmer kindly gave us permission to cross his land with a four by four and a trailer with all the materials. I have put together a short (8 min) movie of the photos…