News
Ladies Open National.
Friday 2nd May 2008
We are Hosting the Scottish Federation of Coarse Angling Ladies open this year on the 6.July this year, If you wish to enter contact martin 07952 545886 or john 077950 90910.
cost £5 entry and £5 pools.
BROWNING YOUTH MASTERS 2008 AT Dormont
Monday 28th April 2008
The Browning Youth Masters is UKs Largest National Angling Competition for young match anglers.
The Winner will receive tackle to the value of £1.500 and will become a sponsored Angler for a year with Browning. contact martin for more info or www.zebco-europe.com
to compete in this competetiton you need to be 17 or under on the date of the final on 30.08.08 we hope to incorporate two age groups to enable the competition to be fairer 7 to 13 and 13 to 17 for both boys and girls.
Coaches working in Ireland.
Monday 3rd March 2008
We have teamed up with P.A.A.England and will be sending a group of our coaches to work for the Irish Loughs Agency on saturday 8th and sunday 9th March to teach the total Angling Experience.
New Wheelyboat for our coaches.
Tuesday 1st January 2008
The new wheelyboat to be moored on Castle Loch it will be used by our coaches to take special needs groups out on to the water. We can offer angling sessions or wildlife tours. This boat will now enable us to take out wheelchair users on to the water in a safe purpose built craft .Contact us if you know of a group that could use this service.
Angling Classes in Schools
Tuesday 1st January 2008
From January to March 2008 we will be running a Angling Roadshow in classrooms, our coaches will be visiting schools in Dumfries and Galloway with the Barony Angling Academy.We will have tanks with invertebrates and tanks with fish in them We will be introducing our carp in the classroom sessions and teaching enviromental issues.
Three Coaches on Scottish Federation for Coarse Angling Comittee
We are absolutely delighted to have secured closer links with The Scottish Federation for Coarse Angling. We now have three of our coaches on the Federation committee, Gus Brindle- Chairman, Martin Mitchell- Vice Chairman,Rab Lee-Youth Development Officer. This is partially due to the hard work done in a short period of time. The Federation has for the first time got a coach licensing scheme this is being administrated by ourselves, we are now taking angling into the classroom. Coarse fishing has never been at a stronger point.
Browning Tackle to Sponsor Angling Academy
TOP TACKLE COMPANY BROWNING HAVE AGREED TO SPONSOR OUR ANGLING ACADEMY. We P.A.A Scotland would like to thank Browning for all their help and look forward to working with them in the future.
Five Coaches complete Get Hooked weekend
5 Coaches have just completed the first Get Hooked (Scotland)weekend at Broom fishery in Annan.We also had taster sessions and an introduction to angling with seventeen children taking part. Everyone really enjoyed themselves with possibly the coaches having more fun than the children. We would like to thank John and Carol for their help in organising this.
Taking Angling Into the Classroom
The P.A.A.(Scotland)are pleased to form closer links with the Scottish Federation of Coarse Anglers. We are now working on developing a schools program to take angling into the classroom.Our Clydebank project was so successful that we are looking to expand it with Federation help and in conjunction with The Barony College.
