President’s post. April 2022

An April encouragement
Hello friends and welcome to this seasons first presidents briefing of the year
I had a wonderful day on the Irvine on Saturday the 2nd of April fishing the Drybridge dam through to the sandy bend
The river was alive with trout responding to a hatch of large dark olives and medium olives.
It showed the numbers and quality of the trout in our waters to be very good indeed
My only disappointment is that I found no other members out enjoying this fine sport
Our waters provide very fine trouting
Cheap and easily reached
The river is in fine fettle and I personally don’t consider stocking needed or desirable
And I found our banks to be navigable yet still wild
So don’t delay catch some trout today
And remember I am no expert
These fish are there for us to all enjoy
Best of sport
Bill Giddings