The North East Marine Region of the Angling Trust are holding the first North East Kayak Angling Championships on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June 2013. Fishing times on both days are 10 am to 3 pm with weigh in between 3 pm to 4.30 pm. Registration and weigh in is at the Fort House Education Resource Centre, Links Road, South Beach, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 3PQ. Entry is £10 each day, all classes. Competitors must register from 8 am at Fort House. This is a Heaviest Single Fish Competition and there will be a good prize list each day. The heaviest single fish taken on the Saturday will win a Typhoon Angler Kayak, donated by Moonfleet Angling, Felling and on the Sunday the first prize is a Wilderness Systems Tarpon 120 Kayak donated by North East Kayaks and Paddles, Amble. There will also be a prize for the heaviest flatfish and a Junior prize each day. There will be an excellent Prize List each day, with sponsors by Lewis Tackle, Whitley Bay ; Vass ; Boat Fishing Monthly ; Shimano ; Tronix Pro ; Fladen ; Kayak Shack, Hornsea ; Simon Everett ; Red Gill Lures : Sakuma : Total Sea Fishing : Sidewinder Lures : Diawa Sports : Shamrock Tackle, Ireland, and others, yet to be confirmed.

Competitors can launch and fish from the Boat House, Whitley Bay, Blyth Beach and Church Point, Newbiggin. No competitor will be allowed to launch until after the safety talk at 9.30 am each day at the three launch points. All kayaks will be inspected for safety equipment before launching and any not deemed to be properly equipped will be refused entry to the competition. Any competitor not having ship-to-shore radio will be asked to “buddy up” with someone who has. Safety boats will be in attendance throughout the two days. The R.N.L.I. will be carrying out free safety checks on life jackets and bouyancy aids. Competitors may use two rods – one for artificials, i.e. shads etc. and the other for bait fishing limited to three hooks on each rod.

The Committee of the North East Region of The Angling Trust are grateful to the Members of the South Beach Residents Association Angling Club for their kind offer to carry out the weigh in on each day.

Blyth’s Lady Mayoress will be presenting Prizes and Trophies after the weigh-in on Sunday.

Free camping and caravan facilities can be booked by contacting the Coastal Warden, Arthur Cranson on 01670-797323 or email arthur.cranson@northumberland.gov.uk. Showers and toilets will be available on site. There is also a fish-and-chip shop and restaurant next to the regisistration point. Free barbeques will be available for competitors to use. Free tea, coffee and soft drinks will be available for competitors.

Trade stands will be on site, which will bring added interest from the general public.
• Moonfleet Angling, Felling (0191-4381555) will have items of fishing tackle on sale and also a selection of their boats.
• The Kayak Shack, Hornsea (01964-562203) will also have a stand with kayaks and equipment available.
• North East Kayaks and Paddles, Amble (01665-714039) will have a large selection of kayaks and equipment. They will also have some of their instructors and demonstration kayaks available for anyone wishing to try these craft out.
• The RNLI and the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen will have stalls selling their products.
• The North East Region of the Angling Trust will have a stand to encourage new members.

Competitors will be asked to donate any unwanted fish and a filleting demonstration will be given with the fillets being given to spectators for donations to the R.N.L.I.

There is plenty of free parking at the registration point, with easy access to the beaches. There is a charge for parking at Whitley Bay.

Postal bookings can be made.

For further details, and postal bookings, please contact Sam Harris on 0191-5184561, email samharris01@aol.com or Peter Mantle on 0191-4887421.

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Hi,

Sorry to bother you with this, my canoe was stolen/removed from Loch Hourn on May 4/5th and I’m hoping to try and spread the word about to see if it can be found.

I’ve attached a PDF with the details and a picture. If you could possibly put it up on a notice board or forward it on that would be very much appreciated.

Thanks for your time,

Yours sincerely,

Chris Longstaff
07748696798

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Dear Club Secretary,

As a Club Affiliated to the Scottish Canoe Association, I am contacting you to offer places to your club on the up and coming courses that we are running here at The Lochgoilhead Centre this summer, if you could please pass this information on to anyone in your club you feel would be interested it would be much appreciated.

We are running two fully residential UKCC Paddlesport Coach courses for £330 (£250 for members of the Scout Association);

• 7th -10th July, UKCC Level One Paddlesports Coach Course

• 11th – 14th August, UKCC Level Two Paddlesports Coach Training

The courses will be delivered by Leo Hoare from Getafix Coaching (for more information about Leo see www.getafix.com)

The courses do not include the prerequisites (FSRT/Two/Three Star) however if you require any of these please get in contact with myself and we can organise this for you.

If you have any questions or you would like to book onto either course please contact the centre on 01301703217 or email grant@lochgoilhead.org.uk

See you on the water!

Grant Dolier

Senior Instructor
The Lochgoilhead Centre
Shelter Park
Lochgoilhead
Argyll
PA24 8AQ

T: 01301 703217
F: 01301 703562
E: grant@lochgoilhead.org.uk

**NOW FULLY SUBSCRIBED. SUCCESSFULL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY CHRISTINA **

Time has been secured at the Waterfront Swimming Pool for Club members to have canoe practice sessions.

Sessions are from 20:30-21:30 on Wednesdays starting on 6th February and running through until 27th March, 8 sessions in total.

Practise your stroke work, rolls, rescue technique, etc in a warm, safe environment prior to the outdoor season starting. No formal instruction will be given, therefore canoe experience is required.

The cost will be £32 for the eight week block with a maximum of 16 people to a session, two working together sharing a canoe. Full payment will be required prior to the 6th of February. We need a minimum of 10, if more than that book then the cost will be reduced accordingly, and refunds will be issued.

If you are interested please contact Christina on 01475 633046.

** NOW FULLY SUBSCRIBED. SUCCESSFULL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY CHRISTINA **

Hi there

My name is Gary Pelc and I am a student at SRUC and the University of Edinburgh. I am doing an honours thesis this year called ‘the recreational benefits of Scottish rivers and the potential impacts of hydro power: a paddler’s perspective’. The aims of the thesis are to estimate the recreational benefits that Scottish rivers provide paddlers by using a number of economic valuation models, discover the attitudes of paddlers towards hydro power and to predict the impact that hydro power will have on Scottish paddling over the coming years.

What I would like from you is to fill out the questionnaire that is linked below and I have also created a dedicated facebook page for it. All responses are totally anonymous and all data will be securely stored on Survey Monkeys servers and subject to full data protection.

The survey shouldn’t take you any more than a few minutes to complete. Please pass it onto anyone else that you feel may be interested or post it on your forum chat page or email list. The survey is fairly straight forward but if you have any queries about the questions, or the research direction in general then please get in touch either at gary.pelc@student.sac.ac.uk or 07577283658

I will make the thesis public after it is marked in the summer of 2013 and hopefully it will provide useful in trying to preserve Scottish rivers (and get me a good mark). Any participation at all will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Gary Pelc

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Scottish_paddling_survey_hydro

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-recreational-benefits-of-Scottish-rivers/298361530275437