Posts by Bob Mason

The PDAA Committee met last night. This was a normal scheduled meeting but the bulk of the time was spent discussing the return to fishing. The following text is an extract from the Marine Scotland guidance: Following the announcement the Scottish Government introduced, from midnight on 5 January, and for the duration of January, a…

2021 subscriptions have been held at 2020 levels. Please renew now! Details have been sent by email to existing members and new members will receive a welcome letter with payment details on submission of their application. Not long until the season starts!!

News from TDSFB

We have secured additional rods on Dalguise. These will be bookable online – see website for details and SuperSaaS for booking.

Congratulations to Stewart Ross who caught a beautiful 15lb hen salmon yesterday on the Pitlochrie beat at the top of the Horsey pool. The fish was caught on an orange & brown intruder fly tied by Stewart, fished on a full floating line. Well done, that man!!

Further to the Scottish Government’s announcement today (28/05/20), the owners of Upper Redgorton have decided that the beat will remain closed and we will not be accepting any new bookings until further notice. The owners will review this later in June 2020.We understand that this may be frustrating and the decision was not taken lightly,…

Your committee has carefully considered the latest Scottish Government information on Covid-19 and the Government’s document “Coronavirus (COVID-19): framework for decision making – Scotland’s route map through and out of the crisis”. In doing so we also carefully considered the needs and expectations of our members and, in our view, the requirement to provide you clear leadership…

The SGA Fishing Group has written to Scottish Government Ministers to discuss the prospect of the return of local angling in Scotland https://news.scottishgamekeepers.co.uk/2020/05/sga-fishing-group-seeks-govt-talks-over.html