Swanswater Cygnets Prize Giving and Annual General Meeting

Today was the Swanswater Cygnets Junior Angling Club Prize Giving and Annual General Meeting. There were seven Cygnets who attended the session. The Cygnets were split into teams to cast towards balloons burst them and casting to ducks and hooking them. The Cygnets had great fun.

It was a cold but sunny day today and the Cygnets were joined by Mr Paul Young, Cygnets Honorary President who presented the prizes to the winners and congratulated the Cygnets on their efforts this past season and gave words of encouragement to them all.


Prize Giving

A Team

CLUB CHAMPION - ROBERT FYFE ( RECORD 4 YEARS - Not Consecutive)

Cameron Smith - 2nd place

Eddie McKillop - 3rd Place

B Team


Angus Robertson - 1st Place

Euan Beattie - 2nd Place

Kyle McKie - 3rd Place

A Team and B Team Cygnets with Paul Young

The Annual General Meeting took place after the prize giving. Details for 2015 will be sent to Cygnets in due course.

Annual General Meeting - Sunday 23rd November 2014

Dear Cygnet

Just a wee reminder that the traditional end to the Cygnets’ season, the AGM and Prize Giving, is being held this coming Sunday, 23^rd November.    The event starts at 10.30 with some fun fishing activities (weather permitting) – all equipment will be provided, just bring your warm outdoor clothes and shoes/boots.

The AGM will be followed by the presentation of prizes for the Club and B Championships.    A light lunch will be provided after prize giving.

ALL Cygnets and their parents/guardians are invited to attend.     It would be very helpful for catering purposes to know how many will be coming so please let me know as soon as possible.

Hope to see you on Sunday

Tight lines

Morna

Sunday 9th November 2014.

Today was the final fishing session of the 2014 season for the Cygnets. The Cygnets were joined today by their Honorary President, Paul Young. The Cygnets always really enjoy Paul's visits to see them.

Today was cold but with bright spells. There were a lot of fish showing around the Millpond. The Cygnets were as eager as ever to get fishing. As soon as they had their platforms pulled from the hat, they were on the water. It was not long before Robert Fyfe took the first fish of the session followed quickly by the second by Cameron Smith.

There were 5 Cygnets at the session today. The fishing was tremendous today with some excellent sport for the Cygnets.

The Successful Cygnets today were:-

Robert Fyfe         2 fish retained & 6 fish returned
Eddie McKillop  2 fish retained & 5 fish returned

Cameron Smith   2 fish retained & 2 fish returned

The next Cygnets Sunday, 23rd November 2014 will be the Annual General Meeting, Prize Giving and Election of Office Bearers for the 2015 season - anyone willing/nominations to take on the role of an office bearer for 2015 are welcomed.

Further details for A.G.M. will follow in due course.

Annual General Meeting

Dear Cygnet

The final fishing session of this season will be held next Sunday, 9^th November, at the usual time of 9.30am to 1pm.   Fishing will take place on the Millpond as normal.

The AGM and Prize-Giving will be held on Sunday 23^rd November (not 16^th as previously stated).   If the weather is suitable there may be some fun fishing activities before the AGM, but we will need to wait and see what the weather is like on the day.   Please be at the Fishery at 10.30am, either for some fun followed by the meeting or, if the weather is bad, just the meeting and prize giving.

ALL Cygnets and parents/guardians are invited to attend the meeting.   There are some important matters regarding the future of the Club to discuss, as well as the election of the new Office Bearers and the presentations of prizes for the Club Championships.   

If you are not able to attend the AGM, but intend to join the Club again next year, please let me know as it would be very useful to know how many members there might be next year.

Tight lines

Morna

Sunday 26th October

The Swanswater Cygnets had an outing today. The B team fished the Mill Pond and the A team fished  Swanswater.

The weather was windy with swirling gusts at times. There was rain throughout the session with heavy showers at times.

There were 4 A team members fishing Swanswater and 2 B Team members fishing the Mill Pond. All the Cygnets persevered and fished throughout the session with very difficult fishing conditions.

The successful A Team Cygnets were

                             Robert Fyfe  -         2 fish retained & 3 returned
                             Eddie McKillop -   2 fish retained & 1 returned
                             Cameron Smith -    2 fish



The next Cygnets session is on Sunday 9th November at normal time.

A Team Outing - Sunday 14th September 2014

The Swanswater Cygnets Junior Angling Club held an outing today for the B Team on the Mill Pond and the A Team on Swanswater fishing from the boats. The weather was cloudy and overcast with a cool wind. There were a lot of fish showing around Swanswater. It was not long before the first fish was taken by Robert Fyfe followed by his second before the other Cygnets hooked up.

The catch return today were:-

A Team - Swanswater

Robert Fyfe   7 fish (2 retained and 5 returned)
Cameron Smith - 1 fish


B Team - Mill Pond

Angus Robertson  2 fish

The next Cygnets session is Sunday 28th September 2014 at the usual time for B Team.

Millhall Reservoir for the A Team Bank outing - 9am for 9.30am start

Annual BBQ - Saturday 23rd August

Dear Cygnet

The annual Club Barbecue is being held on this coming Saturday, 23 August.    The evening starts with fishing from 6pm to approx. 7.15, BBQ at 7.15, then fishing from 8pm to 9pm.

Parents and other family members are welcome to attend.   All adults (apart from coaches and waterside assistants) will be charged £5.   Members and other children under the age of 16 can come along for free.  

In order to have sufficient food for everyone I need to know numbers as soon as possible.     If you want to come along please let me know by return.   If I don’t hear from you, I will assume you aren’t coming and there will be no food for you!!

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Saturday evening.

Morna

17th August 2014

There were 6 Cygnets today at the fishing session. The weather was cold with a swirling wind, which made it a difficult day to fish. At times the sun was shining but this did not dyer the Cygnets.

The successful Cygnets today were

Robert Fyfe, Eddie McKillop and Cameron Smith who each took 1 fish

The Cygnets BBQ is due to be held on Saturday 23rd August 2013

The next session on 31st August will be an A Team outing to Millhall.

Scottish Youth International Team

Congratulations to the Scottish Youth International Fly Fishing Team who won Gold at the 30th Youth International at Grafham Water, Cambridgeshire last week. Swanswater Cygnets JAC have two members within the Scottish team Robert Fyfe and Cameron Smith. Well done boys!!!!

Cygnets A Team Outing to Orchill Fishery

The Cygnet A team had their first outing of the 2014 season today to Orchill Fishery, Braco, Perthshire.

There were 4 members of the A team at the outing today. The weather was mixed with a cool breeze early this morning to bright sunshine and warm to heavy showers and overcast conditions.

There were fish all over the water today rising and showing continually all the time during the session.

The Cygnets fished hard and were reward with some good returns. Lures & Buzzers were the order of the day at Orchill for the A Team Cygnets.

The Catch return today were:-

Eddie McKillop    2 fish retained and 4 fish returned

Robert Fyfe           2 fish retained and 3 fish returned

Cameron Smith     2 fish retained and 1 fish returned

The Cygnets B team were fishing at Swanswater. There were 4 B team members at the session today. There were no fish caught.

The next Cygnets session is at Swanswater Fishery at usual time on Sunday 22nd June 2014.

Stirling Angling Festival

Cygnets News

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2.       Competitions and Outings.   There will be 5 competitions/outings counting towards the Championships this year.   On competition days all fish will count towards the final total.   The A team will fish two on Swanswater, two at Millhall and one at Orchil Loch.  It is hoped that there will be one boat outing and one bank outing at both Millhall and Swanswater but this depends on availability at Millhall.   There will however be two boat outings during the season.

The B team will fish either the Millpond or the Meadow Pond depending on numbers.

Dates for competitions are to be confirmed and you will be informed as soon as possible.

 

3.       Barbecue.   There are two possible dates for the annual BBQ – Saturday 28 June or Saturday 23 August.   If members could let me know which of these dates suits better, the BBQ will be arranged to suit the majority of members.   We hope to hold a fun competition on the night of the BBQ which may take the form of a pairs or team competition.   Further details nearer the time.

 

4.       Fund Raising.   Stirling is hosting an International Angling Festival early in August.   On the weekend of 9/10 August the Millpond and Meadow Pond are being used to offer taster sessions for people, particularly youngsters, wishing to try fly fishing for the first time.   A team of coaches will be here and people are being brought in by mini-bus from the main centre of the Festival which is at the new Auction Mart (where Angling Active is).   The Cygnets committee have decided that this offers an ideal chance to raise some money for the club.   It is proposed to hold a Tombola with fishing related and other prizes, and also to have a Cake Stall selling teas, coffees and home baking to visitors to the Fishery.   Volunteers will be needed to man these stalls over the weekend and also donations will be needed for both.    Please think what you can do to help and let me or another committee member know.   The organisers of the Festival are also keen to have Cygnets on hand to let other youngsters know how much enjoyment they get from their fishing so I would be grateful if you can let me know whether you are free over that weekend so I can arrange who can be here.      Again, further details nearer the time.

 

Sunday 27th April 2014

There were 11 Cygnets at todays session. The weather was dry with sunny spells but a cool breeze persisted for much of the morning. Once the Cygnets were all set up and had drew their platform from the hat they were off fishing.

Swanswater Fishery Hard Fighting Rainbow Trout

The Cygnets were delighted to be joined today by Cygnets Honorary President Mr Paul Young. The Cygnets really enjoy fishing when Paul is giving them encouragement and advice.

The first fish to be taken was a cracking Tiger trout by Robert Fyfe, followed quickly by Louise Dinley and William Addison. Interestingly the Tiger trout were taking at the top end of the Mill pond where at the bottom end Cameron Smith landed a Rainbow.

The fishing conditions were tricky today with a bit of colour in the Mill Pond due to the heavy rain over the previous days, However, the Cygnets persevered and some were rewarded with some good sport. Most of the fish were taken today on either lures or buzzers.

The Successful Cygnets today were:-


Edward McKillop    2 fish and 2 fish returned
Louise Dinley          2 fish
Robert Fyfe              2 fish
William Addison      1 fish
Cameron Smith        1 fish

Following the fishing session some of the Cygnets attended the fly tying class with Cygnets Instructor Jimmy Miller and were shown how to tie a Hot Peach 'n' Orange.

The next Cygnets session is on Sunday 11th May 2014

Sunday 13th April 2014

The weather was blustery and cold with occasional showers.   There were 8 Cygnets at the session.   The fish were mostly down the bottom end of the Millpond (sheltering from the wind). 

After the fishing session Jimmy Miller, fly tying instructor, held a fly-tying session for the Cygnets.

Successful Cygnets today were:

Cameron Smith 2 fish for 4lb 14oz plus 8 released

Keir Penman, 2 for 5lb

Louise Dinely, 2 for 5lb 8oz

Kyle McKie, 1 for 2lb 4oz

Euan Beattie, 1 for 2lb 5oz

Angus Robertson 1 for 2lb

Most of his fish were taken on a hot-head damsel.   

The next Cygnets session is on Sunday 27th April 2014

Sunday 30th March 2014

Swanswater Cygnets JAC held their second session of the 2014 season today. It was dull with a cold east wind. 

Cygnets were split between both the Mill Pond and Meadow Pond, with the experienced Cygnets fishing the Mill Pond.

Only three fish were caught – Eddie McKillop got two blues for 4lb 1oz, one on an Okey Dokey and the other on a Daddy on the surface, and Angus Robertson got a 2lb Tiger on a Kate McLaren with the help and assistance of Mr Ian Lohoar (Game Angling Coach).

Three of the Cygnets were unable to attend today as they had a Scottish Youth International Team Commitment.

The next Cygnets session is on Sunday 13th April 09:30am

Sunday 23rd March 2014 - Opening Day

Today was the first day of the Swanswater Cygnets Junior Angling Club's fishing season. The Cygnets were delighted to be joined today by their Honorary President Mr Paul Young, who spent time with the Cygnets giving them advice and encouragement.

It was a cold but bright and sunny day with a steady breeze at the start of the session. There were 11 Cygnets at today's session who were eager to start fishing. Once the Cygnets dew their pegs from the hat they were fishing.

First of 2014

The first fish was hooked and landed by William Addison followed by his second before any of the other Cygnets managed to hook a fish. It was not long after this when Cameron Smith and Robert Fyfe hooked into fish. The fish were showing around the pond at various times throughout the session. Overall the Cygnets had a tremendous days sport with 4 Cygnets managing to bag up and then go onto catch and release thereafter.

Waiting for a take

Fish on 

The successful Cygnets today were:-

Robert Fyfe - 2 fish and two returned

Cameron Smith - 2 fish and one returned

William Addison - 2 fish

Edward McKillop - 2 fish

Angus Robertson - 1 fish 

Swanswater Cygnets JAC with Paul Young

Following the fishing session the Pre-Season meeting was held. 

The next Cygnets session is on Sunday 30th March 2014 at 09:30am. 

REMEMBER to put your clocks forward 1 hour next Saturday Night!!!!!

Swanswater Cygnets JAC, 2014 Season opening this Sunday

The new fishing season will start this SUNDAY 23^RD MARCH 2014.  The first session will start at 9.30am and will be followed by a meeting for all members, parents and guardians at 12 noon to outline what will be taking place over the season.  

The annual subscription of £20 (as agreed at the AGM on 24^th November 2013) is now due and should be paid at the first meeting.   Please let me know if you cannot manage along to the first session but do want to join the Club for the 2014 season.

If you do not intend to re-join the Club for any reason, I would be very grateful if you could let me know so that we know roughly how many members we will have for the coming year.

Also if you know of any of your friends who might be interested in learning to fish, please bring them along to Cygnets with you.

See you all on Sunday.  Tightlines

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Swanswater Cygnets JAC 2014 Season Starts Sunday 23rd March

Dear Cygnet

The new fishing season will start on SUNDAY 23^RD MARCH.  The first session will start at 9.30am and will be followed by a meeting for all members, parents and guardians at 12 noon to outline what will be taking place over the season.  

The annual subscription of £20 (as agreed at the AGM on 24^th November 2013) is now due and should be paid at the first meeting.   Please let me know if you cannot manage along to the first session but do want to join the Club for the 2014 season.

If you do not intend to re-join the Club for any reason, I would be very grateful if you could let me know so that we know roughly how many members we will have for the coming year.

Also if you know of any of your friends who might be interested in learning to fish, please bring them along to Cygnets with you.

I look forward to seeing you on 23^rd March

Tight lines

Morna

Annual General Meeting & Prize Giving

The Swanswater Cygnets Junior Angling Club held their Annual General Meeting and Prize Giving this morning. Prior to the AGM the Cygnets had a "fun day" - the Cygnets were split into two teams of three and each team competed against the other team, casting to balloons in an attempt to burst them, target practice/accuracy where the Cygnets cast their lines trying to get the wool into a hoop and finally trying to hook rubber ducks. The Cygnets all seemed to have some great fun regardless of the freezing cold day. It was bright but very cold.

The Annual General Meeting took place after the fun day. There were 7 Cygnets along with  parents/grandparents that attended the meeting.

Chairman Alasdair Fyfe thanked all the Cygnets, parents/grandparents, coaches, waterside assistants and fishery staff for their assistance throughout the year.  He also thanked Honorary President Paul Young for his continued support and encouragement he gives the Cygnets on his visits.

The election of office bearers for next season were -

Chairman - Alasdair Fyfe

Vice Chairman - David Armour

Secretary/Treasurer - Morna Lohoar

Match Secretary - Jim Allan

It was proposed that at the pre-season meeting two ordinary members along with two Cygnets members will be elected to join the committee.

Prize Giving

It was agreed that due to lack of numbers that there would be no B Team winners this season. It was a very close battle this season for the overall club champion with 3 points (3oz) making the difference between 1st and 2nd.

A Team Prize Winners

Cygnets Prize Winners

Club Champion - Eddie McKillop

Runner Up - Robert Fyfe

Third - Cameron Smith

Fly Tying Shield - Alasdair Anderson

Club Champion - Eddie McKillop

Alasdair Anderson

Chairman Alasdair Fyfe congratulated Alasdair Anderson, Robert Fyfe and Cameron Smith for their achievement of being selected to fish for the Scottish Youth International Team and wished them tight lines for their international careers.

Cameron Smith, Robert Fyfe and Alasdair Anderson
Scottish Youth International Team members

The Cygnets did extremely well this past season with fishing conditions not being ideal at times due to the weather.

The details of next season will be sent to Cygnets in due course. If any Cygnets have any friends who might be interested in joining or learning to fish please bring them along next season.