Welcome to the 2008 Season. A warm welcome to all members and visitors. The start of the season and already the first outing on 1st March was a bit of an adventure with strong cold wind and hailstone showers. Great to be back? Course it was. The traditional dram to kick off the season helped but being at the water fills you with anticipation and brings back memories of past seasons when this happened here and that happened there. Here’s to a new season that will provide one or two decent memories.
Subscriptions. At the AGM in December it was agreed that the subscription rate would remain at £20.00 for the fourth year in succession. Please pay your subs to the Secretary as soon as possible and certainly before the end of April.
Committee. Also at the AGM a new committee is elected. Based purely on good looks and their availability to pose for a Hardy’s catalogue if required, the following were voted into office:-
D A MacLennan (Chairman), R Fraser (vice Chair), P Harding (Secretary), O Foote, S Wiseman and W Marshall.
Float Tubes. The Club now own three Float Tubes for the use of members and only on the Clubs waters. Please contact Phillip for availability and for those less confident we will try to arrange a spot of tuition.
Annual Dinner. Held on Friday 25th in the Lochmaddy Hotel. The evening went well apart from maybe an hour long power failure during the meal! Thanks to our guest speaker Dr Katherine Ross, the hotel staff and all who turned up. Our prize giving was held at the Dinner and I’ll list the winners as soon as I can.
Annual Outing. They’ll be two this year. First to Harris lochs on 16th August and a return to the Obbe Fishery on the 6th September. Please contact Phillip of you wish to go to either.
SAA & NUAC. Operate a system whereby club members may fish the waters of the other Club. Any member who wishes to take advantage of this excellent arrangement should contact Phillip who holds two complementary tickets for SAA’s River Creed.
North Uist Estate. Grants access to Grimsay seapools on Wednesdays and Saturdays. This generous concession is for members based on North Uist only and bookings must be made through Phillip.
The Site. If you come across any news or features with a North Uist connection please feel free to pass them on for possible inclusion either in the site or as a link.
Newspaper Articles. Apparently there have been a couple of articles in one of the Sunday papers about fishing the sea pools. I believe they were set on North Uist. If any one has copies I would be grateful for a look.
Tight Lines for the rest of the Season.
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