Cramond Angling Club

Keep Scotland Beautiful and West Lothian Council calls for volunteers to clean up River Almond from Livingston Rugby Club to the Civic Centre.

Keep Scotland Beautiful, and West Lothian Council is calling for the people of Livingston to don yellow tabards and help spring clean their local area of litter on April 24th 2010 at 10am-2pm.

Tired of the crisp bags, juice bottles and other litter that is spoiling River Almond at Livingston, Keep Scotland Beautiful and West Lothian Council decided to organise a clean up event as part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s National Spring Clean 2010.

Ian Stewart said, “We want to encourage as many volunteers as possible to come and take part in our spring clean.  Litter removal from Scotland’s streets costs over £100million a year which could be spent on other services. We hope our clean up will show others that we have pride in Livingston and by working together we can take responsibility for our surroundings and show that dropping litter is unacceptable.”

Keep Scotland Beautiful and West Lothian Council will be joining hundreds of other community groups, schools, youth clubs, environmental organisations, voluntary groups, businesses and individuals who will be spring cleaning their local areas during April.

In fact, last April almost 60,000 volunteers took part in clean up events as part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s National Spring Clean. And they gathered enough litter to fill 28,819 standard wheelie bins – proving that even each individual volunteer’s small contribution really does make a huge difference.

If you are looking for a fun, family day out this April 24th, why not join the tens of thousands of people taking part in National Spring Clean and put a bit of a sparkle back
into your local neighbourhood? For further press information please contact Ian Stewart, Environmental Warden, West Lothian Council on 01506 776485 ian.stewart@westlothian.gov.uk or Ian Young Flood Risk Management on 01506 776580 ian.young@westlothian.gov.uk.

National Spring Clean will take place throughout Scotland between 1st – 30th April 2010 and full details can be found at www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/springclean

Boat and bank fishing for Trout, starting at 09:00 – 17:00, £17.00 Bank rod £19.00 Boat rod payable on the day, the price includes a 15% discount for club members.  Boats need to be booked in advance by contacting Scott (scott@fishcrosswood.co.uk)   International Rules apply.

For more information see www.fishcrosswood.co.uk

Boat and bank fishing for Trout, starting at 16:30 – 22:30, with a BBQ starting at 15:00 on the banks. £15.00 Bank rod £17.00 Boat rod payable on the day, the price includes a 15% discount for club members.  Boats need to be booked in advance by contacting Scott (scott@fishcrosswood.co.uk)  BBQ available at £5.00 per person payable to the Club Treasurer in advance.

For more information see www.fishcrosswood.co.uk

Following on from our 2009 Junior Fun Day, we have arranged our junior day out at Allandale Tarn.  This will be funded by the club, so all junior members can fish for free.  The event it due to start at 11:00 with an hours tuition from Paul Buchanan, followed by 4 hours of fishing and a BBQ to finish up with

For more information see http://www.allandaletarn.com/

To book the Junior outing or for further information, then please contact Millar Laing (Vice Chairman) on millarlaing@blueyonder.co.uk, bookings are on a first come first served basis with a closing date of the 12th April 2010.  As usual presentations will take place at the 2010 Annual General Meeting.

Following on from 2009 we are holding a “catch and release” competition on the River Almond, fishing Beats 2 & 3.  Meeting at 08:30 at the Cramond Brig, fishing will commence at 09:00 – 16:00, please bring a digital camera or camera phone.

Hinshelwood Trophy

The plan is being worked on. (River conditions permitting).Meet at 8am at Cammo Estate entrance just up from the Grotto Bridge.If you cant make 8am come along later and have a chat and a hot roll as there is usually hot food on hand. we intend to finish by noon.If the river height prevents us from finishing this task we will do something else in the vicinity, meet same time and place

for further details contact :

millarlaing@blueyonder.co.uk

The plan is to meet at the Cammo / Grotto Bridge Car Park at 8am and sort out willow island and see what can be done with the eroded bank (River level permitting), if you can’t make it for 8 am, then come along later and meet the members.