Update: 17th February 2025
River Opening on Saturday 15th Feb 2025 at 11am.
A large amount of people appeared to help the Club to Officially Open the River Beauly. The weather was perfect and the Piper on-song to lead us to the water for the Toast. Pictures on the Gallery.
Thank you to all who attended who made the event memorable,
and to all those who donated raffle prizes which raised a lot for the Club.
Thank you all
Raffle Prizes & Winners, top 10:
Overnight stay with dinner for 2 in Aviemore Macdonald Resort (John McColl)
Fishing for 3 on the Freeburn Beat of the Findhorn (Jenny Low)
Fishing on Loch Achility with boat and outboard (David Crerar)
Gift Voucher Thai Beauly (John Smith)
Ord Smokehouse Gift Voucher (Syd Pennington)
1 day Electrofishing River Beauly (Ashley Simon)
Achagour Fishery voucher (Peter Mackenzie)
4 Hand Tied Flies (I McHardy)
Ghillies Hand-tied flies (Ashley Simon)
Bottle of Whisky Lochlea (F.Durdle)
+various other prizes and winners.
The 2025 Permits are now available for Seniors and Juniors.
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: go to the Forms page or go to a pdf. from this link Senior Renewal form 2025
For the Juniors use this link Junior renewal form25
There are a couple of rods still available on the Downie beats with the Club’s syndicate, you need to be a member.
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.
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):
| Monday 17 February 2025 | 03:02 | 4.26 | M | High Water |
| 08:29 | 1.30 | M | Low Water | |
| 15:04 | 4.47 | M | High Water | |
| 20:55 | 0.98 | M | Low Water | |
| Tuesday 18 February 2025 | 03:33 | 4.04 | M | High Water |
| 08:50 | 1.41 | M | Low Water | |
| 15:38 | 4.29 | M | High Water | |
| 21:19 | 1.22 | M | Low Water | |
| Wednesday 19 February 2025 | 04:06 | 3.80 | M | High Water |
| 09:13 | 1.54 | M | Low Water | |
| 16:15 | 4.06 | M | High Water | |
| 21:46 | 1.49 | M | Low Water | |
| Thursday 20 February 2025 | 04:43 | 3.54 | M | High Water |
| 09:41 | 1.69 | M | Low Water | |
| 16:58 | 3.80 | M | High Water | |
| 22:19 | 1.80 | M | Low Water | |
| Friday 21 February 2025 | 05:26 | 3.31 | M | High Water |
| 10:17 | 1.87 | M | Low Water | |
| 17:53 | 3.55 | M | High Water | |
| 23:04 | 2.12 | M | Low Water | |
| Saturday 22 February 2025 | 06:22 | 3.14 | M | High Water |
| 11:11 | 2.07 | M | Low Water | |
| 19:06 | 3.39 | M | High Water | |
| Sunday 23 February 2025 | 02:48 | 2.31 | M | Low Water |
| 07:35 | 3.09 | M | High Water | |
| 14:46 | 2.09 | M | Low Water | |
| 20:33 | 3.42 | M | High Water | |
| Monday 24 February 2025 | 03:58 | 2.11 | M | Low Water |
| 08:57 | 3.24 | M | High Water | |
| 15:58 | 1.74 | M | Low Water | |
| 21:53 | 3.65 | M | High Water |
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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 through 2024, the Club plan to hold more days in 2025 – check the website and Facebook for details and Yorky or Karl should be getting in contact as well to those Juniors who have joined this year.
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.
