Saturday 24 March 2018

Tidy Up & AGM

Today was one of my clubs pre season work parties followed by our AGM & Dinner. It was nice to see everybody again and meet some new friends.




The river although a bit high with all the recent rain is starting to look good and we were even privileged to see a few fish rise to a hatch of olives as we worked our way downstream.








The craic was as always great and our minds were never too far away from the upcoming trout season.

A few pics of the guys.





One of the members getting to grips with his lopers.









How many men to get a strimmer to work..







Committee members doing what they do best....chatting.








Nice to see Steve still has a smile on his face

And as always the sights along the bank didn't let us down, as we walked back up through the wood we were greeted with 5 or 6 large hares scrambling up the bank to get away from us, and the brief glimpse of the dippers always brings a smile to my face.






The daffodils are standing proud in the mild weather.








With the work party complete and an hour or so to kill before the AGM I headed downstream to our other section on the river for a walk to see what that was looking like.







The normal residents were there as always.









but unfortunately one short which didn't make it through and has either been caught by some predator or has died of injuries sustained.









The colours are starting to show through both on the trees and on the ground with the willow blossoms turning the bare trees white.






And the flowers are poking through on the banks.

The teasel seed heads gently blowing in the breeze


Walk over I headed to the venue for the AGM and still a bit early decided to investigate the sound of rushing water I heard as I exited the car and and a short stroll from the Pub, I found this tucked away.


The AGM went as planned and it was nice to see a few new faces amongst the club members Unfortunately I couldn't stay for Dinner but am sure everyone enjoyed themselves. Thanks to Dave for the donation of a set of woodcock & snipe wings to add to my tying kit they will do rather nicely in boosting the stocks of spiders.

As always I made up some furled leaders to be sold to members for charity and £30 was raised from their sale which will be donated to The Macmillan Nurses which my wife Karen & other members at RAF Leeming are currently raising money for. All thats left to say is Tight Lines for the New Trout Season

4 comments:

  1. George the river looks a bit on the high side.
    Great bunch of guys getting ready for a fine season.
    The daffodils are brilliant and bring such beautiful color to the land.

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    1. It was still high Alan, would have been perfect height today but I had family visiting from Scotland so won't get out for a wee while yet.

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  2. Happy spring! Opener just around the corner. Nice group doing work.

    I'm envious of the tradition of maintaining access corridors on your side of the pond. Ive got a pet stream here that is public --though isolated and beyond the casual sort of outing-- which could benefit from some surrepitious clean-up. Impassible. Too much downed timber ( Ash bore induced deaths). Some erosion that could benefit from willow wicker and alder saplings.


    Of two minds about it.


    No. Not two minds. I've enough civil disobedience in me I think Ill learn some stream management techniques and put them to work. Surely I can get a mile in good shape over the next decade.

    Remember _Brazil_? I could be the renegade HVAC repairman. Hmm. Need to "do no harm" so something to learn.

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  3. Im back on my stretch at the next opportunity Spike as there was some parts Im not happy with but require my waders on to achieve them, as the old saying says if you want something doing your best doing it yourself, am sure you will reap the rewards of your hard work :)

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