News
Changes to P.A.A.Scotland
Monday 2nd August 2010
We are pleased to announce a few changes to P.A.A.Scotland. We have appointed two new Directors John Hood (S.A.N.A.) Coaching Officer, and Steve Warwick one of the S.F.C.A Coach Educators and Mark Acton one of the S.F.C.A Coach Educators has been appointed as company Secretary.
John Rae has now stood down as a Director. Many thanks to John for all the hard work he has carried out for us over the years John will remain as one of our Senior Coaches.
Scottish Executive Funding.
Monday 10th May 2010
The Scottish Government have recognised the hard work carried out by our partners the S.F.C.A and have awarded us considerable funding this year for the Coach Educator programme and to promote the sport in Scotland.
This is partly due to P.A.A.Scotland involvement with our Schools program and involvement with the setting up of the first Centre of Excellence for Coarse Angling in Scotland.
We are now in a position to finalise the training of the Coach Educator Programme and hope to deliver our first U.K.C.C coaching course in July/ Aug this year.
The P.A.A.Scotland and S.F.C.A.coaching team will be taking the lead in delivering this programme at our Centre of Excellence the Barony College
Schools program
Monday 10th May 2010
Thanks to John Rae we have now expanded our Schools program into Glasgow area,
John has been working with the ranger service on a couple of projects in Glasgow.
We are expecting to have our program in the Fife area later on this year.
Angling Scotland Show 2010
Monday 8th March 2010
Five of our coaches attended this show at the weekend.We had coarse and game coaches carrying out a variety of coaching sessions. We also had representitives of The Barony College advising on careers in Fisheries.The show was well attended and the feedback so far, has been positive.We look forward next year and working with the organisers for an even better show
U.K.C.C At Last after 2 years.
Monday 22nd February 2010
Finally after 2 years of delay all 3 governing bodies sent their 15 top coaches to Stirling University this weekend 20th and 21st of Feb. They are now in a position to start to deliver the new National Qualification to Scotland.U.K.C.C standard.
The good news for us is we had 6 of our coaches attend over two angling disciplines.
If you hold any other anging qualification and wish to update to the new National Qualification contact your Angling Governing body or contact me through this site.
A.D.B. Scotland Tutors
Sunday 6th December 2009
Finally 6 of our coaches are finally getting trained to deliver the new U.K.C.C angling coaching certificate in Febuary .John Rae, Gus Brindle, Martin Mclaren, Don Paterson, Martin Mitchell, Steve Warwick will soon be in a position to tutor and assess new coaches to the new U.K.C.C. coaching Qualification to which all coaches in the UK will have to have or work towards from this year.
After this we will then be in a position to recruit new coaches into the S.F.C.A and P.A.A. Scotland and to a standard that all 3 governing bodies in Scotland and Sports Scotland approve.
Within 2 years only U.K.C.C. and A.D.B. Scotland licensed coaches will be allowed to operate legally in Scotland.
This process has now taken us almost two years to sort out however its important to assure that coaches are getting the right qualification rather than having to re assess them at a later date.
Dams to Darnley Country Park
Monday 9th November 2009
Something fishy, Sunday Nov 8th two of our coaches took part in this programme with the park ranger service, the event was well attended and the coaches are now trying to establish an angling club. For more info have a look on the country park web site,
www.damstodarnley.org
Continuing our work.
Monday 9th November 2009
Despite not much news recently we are working with all our partners in Angling Development Board Scotland to finally get the new UK coaching certificate in place in Scotland, and we will soon be in a position to train and assess new coaches.
Our main aim is to provide Professional coaches to a high standard who are fully licenced by our partners S.F.C.A.
4 of our coaches will be the lead staff for tutoring. All new coaches game and sea anglers will also have 4 tutors.
We will all be working through the A.D.B.Scotland when we start running courses(early next year)
All coaches working in Scotland will have to be licenced through the Governing Body within the discipline that they intend to coach.
This will stop rogue coaches who are not licenced from operating and who are potentially damaging our sport.
S.F.C.A. Guidelines to hiring Angling Coaches.
Sunday 14th June 2009
The S.F.C.A. has a small pool of Qualified Angling coaches operating in Scotland and hopes to increase the numbers and geographical spread in the coming years.
All of these coaches are currently licensed through our coaching partner, The Professional Anglers Association (Scotland).
All of these coaches have a professional coaching qualification are trained in first aid and child protection, have been Enhanced Disclosure (Scotland) check and public liability insurance and subject themselves to annual assessment to ensure that professional standards are being maintained and improved.
The S.F.C.A strongly recommend that individuals wishing to engaging the services of a coach, Particularly when dealing with Children or Vulnerable adults, use an S.F.C.A. accredited one.
The S.F.C.A accepts no liability for the actions of any unaccredited coach or for the standard of the product they deliver.
Fishery Management Consultants
Friday 20th March 2009
P.A.A.Scotland are delighted to welcome Donald Paterson as one of our team. Donald will be heading the new Fishery Consultancy part of our business, he has a vast knowledge in this area. He has been a Senior Lecturer in Aquaculture and Fishery Management at The Barony College and has worked with The Loughs Agency and The Enviroment Agency.
And with three of our angling coaches with Fishery Management Qualifications we feel confident in offering this new service.
Return to Ireland For P.A.A. Scotland
Tuesday 24th February 2009
After last years successful Angling Show at the Loughs Agency Headquarters we will be returning on the 8th and 9th March to deliver our Total Angling Experience. Again we have teamed up with our collegues from P.A.A. England, to attend this show. Last year we had over 2000 children attend the coaching events with topics from pole fishing, fly tying and fly casting to tanks of invertebrates, fish welfare and sea angling.
Browning Youth Masters 2009
Sunday 18th January 2009
We will be announcing shortly the list of Fisherys in Scotland for the Youth Masters this year. We will be increasing the number of fisheries and try to spread the competition throughout Scotland.. More details to follow....
Fly Tying Course
Friday 16th January 2009
Barony College are offering a 10 week Fly Tying course, Thursdays 7pm-9pm starting 22nd January, cost £59. See this leaflet for more information.
ANGLING COACH
Monday 12th January 2009
Have you ever thought about becoming a Professional Angling Coach? We are looking to deliver a Level 2 Angling Coach course this year at The Barony College Dumfries. If you are interested contact Martin through site.
Angling Roadshow 2009
Thursday 1st January 2009
The successful Angling roadshow that we ran with Barony College last year will be started up in February around the schools in Dumfries and Galloway.
Active 8 Lanarkshire.
Sunday 23rd November 2008
We are in the second week of an Angling programme with Active 8, A team who work with children with educational issues,
We are taking children from Lanarkshire and taken them to Barony to visit the fish farm site and animal care sections and giving them some angling in the classroom demonstrations and a taster on the fishery putting what they have learnt into practice on the water.
we are looking to follow this up with our angling in the classroom sessions.
New sea angling coach.
Sunday 23rd November 2008
P.A.A. Scotland Welcome Mark Carryer level 2 sea angler to our coaching team.Mark is an experienced shore angler and a member of the Scottish Federation of Sea Anglers,
Maryhill canal (Big Man)
Saturday 4th October 2008
Three of our coaches attended the Big Man event at Maryhill canal locks. We gave angling demonstrations throughout the day on this event. This was organised by UZ Event Producers
Glasgow.
Annan A.R.C.
Monday 1st September 2008
We have just completed our second run with Annan A.R.C group,
This year we had Fiona Armstrong visit the fishery and the lads from Annan I think all of us had a great time with the television crew and thanks to Fiona for the Photos with the Lads.
Angling classes start at the Barony
Saturday 23rd August 2008
On Monday 25th August we will be running our second sessions of angling classes with school children from a range of schools in Dumfries and Galloway.
Dormont Angling club
Tuesday 29th July 2008
We are now going to start a fishing club at Dormont Lake, we have junior members and a ladies section so contact us and we can give you more info. We will not only fish at Dormont we will try other waters and perhaps fish competitions against other clubs ....
Two new coaches.
Tuesday 22nd July 2008
congratulations to Steve Warwick and Mark Acton for passing your level 2 coaching cert,
Welcome to the P.A.A. Scotland
Boat Theft
Saturday 7th June 2008
Thanks to the Greedy low life that stole the boat from Dormont Lake This boat was used as a work boat to remove weed etc so our special needs anglers could fish.
I hope you enjoy the boat and you have a good time using it hopefully it will sink with the vermin that stole it.
NEXT SCHOOLS PROGRAM STARTS
Tuesday 3rd June 2008
The start of our third Schools program will take place on16th june,At the Barony with Angling sessions and Enviromental issues. more to follow
BROWNING YOUTH MASTERS 2008 AT Dormont
Monday 28th April 2008
The Browning Youth Masters is UKs Largest National Angling Competition for young match anglers.
DATES FOR DORMONT contact fishery.
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
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.
