UPDATE 11th January 2025
Happy New Year to all.
The 2025 Permits are now available.
Please use the form below to renew your membership with Toby Hardwick, our Membership Secretary.
Bank account details are on the form, or cheque and cash can be used.
We hope to welcome you all back to the Club at last year’s prices.
Renewal Form from this link Senior Renewal form 2025
The AGM Thursday 12th December 2024, The Lovat Arms, Dining Room at 7:30pm.
Minutes for this and the previous Committee Meeting are available on Committee Minutes pages 2024
Thanks to all who came – a good turnout on a frosty evening.
General decisions were that the Committee would remain the same for 2025, no price increases would be made to the fishing and for the Senior Citizens – they would no longer have to have 5 years ordinary membership.
We need to encourage fishers to join our club, membership has been going down since the Covid years and water heights have made fishing difficult on our stretch of the Beauly River. Catches have not been great but we did manage 2 good Salmon for 2024 (none in 2023!).
Junior fishing remains very popular – the goal is to encourage these Juniors to get onto the River and try it on for size, once they have mastered a switch type rod and can cast a line out.
Ruth from the Beauly Fishery Board gave a talk on what work they were committed to this year and next – looking at the redds and how the gravel deposits have changed in the river bed used by the Salmon for their eggs.
We should have the minutes of the AGM out soon, although due to the lateness in the year, we may not manage to get the permits ready before the holiday season.
Junior Fishing Competition, Orrin Lochs. Sunday 22nd September
A cold but dry morning for the Competition – no floods this year which cancelled last year’s competition!
The winner was Melanie Hardwick with a 1lb 8oz fish. Coming in joint 2nd were the Vickers’ brothers – Ruairidh and Alasdair – both with a matched pair of fish at 1lb 4oz.
The Mackenzie Shield was awarded by Mr Mackenzie whose son Murray and Charlie Macdonald (who came joint first in 2022) did their best to defend their title from 2022.
Thanks go to Yorky Brocklehurst and Karl Brocklehurst for organising and supervising the Juniors sessions during the Season, to Mr. Mackenzie and SSEN for their donations to help the Beauly Angling Club run the Junior meetings – and to all the parents who bring their Juniors along to fish the Lochs at Orrin. Pictures on the Junior Pages.
Water levels on parts of the Beauly system still remain high (work on one of the dams upstream?) so the usually good beats 1 and 2 were not easily fished. As we approach the end of the Season fishing we have heard that fish are going through the system and have been seen and caught on the lower Beauly beats. Hope it means we may have a good start to next season on the Downie.
Senior Competition:
This took place at Achagour Fishery on Saturday 27th July 4-8 pm. The winner at 1lb 14oz (by an ounce on joint 2nd place) was Iain Morrison.
Iain also won 1st prize in the raffle with Frank Durdle getting the 2nd prize. Neil Mackenzie awarded the Senior Shie
ld to Iain Morrison.
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There are fish going through the river system- this is a fresh grilse, around 7lb caught by Toby Hardwick early August.
Derek Maclean caught the 2nd salmon – a 6lb fish. The upper beats from the Downie to the Falls have also been catching fish after the rains.
BDFB Conservation Policy 2024 Just issued by the Board for information to our Members, click to access the .pdf.
Some information about the Ness & Beauly Biosecurity Plan until 2030. All the non-native species that cold threaten the River system.
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Tide Times ( Inverness): Will return next season.
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The Beauly Angling Club provides members with affordable access to river and firth for Salmon and Sea Trout.
The club was founded during the Second World War by the late Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, and became known as the Beauly Angling Club in the mid 1980s.
Our fishing on the River Beauly extends downstream from Lovat Bridge to Wester Lovat; this equates to around 7 miles of bank fishing with ten named pools.
The fishing on the inner half of the Beauly Firth is also included in club membership offering saltwater fly fishing, spinning and bait fishing predominately for Sea Trout. We have a number of exchange tickets set up with other Angling Clubs across Scotland.
We will have exchange tickets and also offer concessionary waters – please see the menu from the Members & Club Information pages after the Season begins
The club holds a number of friendly competitions for members held on different waters and regularly fields teams in inter-club competitions during the season, please see the Competitions page.
- In 2014 we launched a junior member development programme aimed at bringing the next generation of anglers into the sport. After the success of Junior Fishing Days in 2021, 2022 and 2023, the Club plan to hold more days in 2024 – check the website and Facebook for details and Yorky or Karl should be getting in contact as well.
Who can join? The club is open to potential members from all over the Highlands & Islands. We would particularly welcome applications from potential junior members.
