ACTIVITIES

The main activity of the Club, is to try to co-ordinate all of the individual members various activities and focus them on a concerted effort to promote every aspect of the sport of angling which will benefit the Club members and the community as a whole.

Angling for fish with hook and line has preoccupied mankind since the time that human beings discovered how to fashion the first primitive tools. Bone fishing hooks dating from 6000 BC have been found in Denmark preserved in a bog, but they probably date back to untold ages before that time.

Every angler has a personal goal or goals, some are competitive, some are not, it may not even be the actual catching of the fish that draws them into the company of other anglers. One thing is certain however; anyone who puts a hook and line into the water is fishing with the sincere hope of landing the big one.

A 13lb. 8oz. Salmon was taken from the river Garvie this year by Kester Armstrong, possibly the best fish in the last 30 years according to Keith Dunbar's report in the WEST SUTHERLAND FISHERIES TRUST NEWS, Issue 12.

The big one may weigh only two ounces, for example, the Small Mouthed Rock Cook Wrasse for which the European Record is in fact a two ounce fish caught from Badentarbat pier by a Mr. D F Mckendrick and equalled this year by our fellow member A Boyd of Achiltibuie.

Other European record rod and line catches held locally include a 3lb 12 oz Mackerel (E. Scobie) and a 9lb 14 oz Haddock (M.Lawton).

Local game fish records include, Salmon, Sea trout, and Brown trout.

One of the important activities of the Club is restocking the local migratory system with Sea trout using the Whitlock Vibert Box Incubator Nursery artificial redd method, which is described in more detail in a separate section of this year book.