Category Archives: Fishing News & Events

2026 YEARBOOKS now on sale Get your 2026 yearbook from our online membership shop or by post from the club secretary. They are available from agents now. Agents are KL Tackle, North Street Keighley BD21 3AD and Eccleshill Angling Supplies, Stoney Lane Eccleshill BD2 2HL. Please support our local independent tackle shops with your bait and tackle purchases. Membership runs for a calendar year – ALL memberships expire on 31st December of the year printed on the Yearbook cover. If you order your yearbook online you can fish before your book arrives. Remember to print out your payment receipt email Continue reading 2026 Yearbooks→

Bob Shaw 1936 – 2025 It is with great sadness that we report the recent passing of one of our longest-standing club members. Bob was a life member and Vice President of the club. Bob was heavily involved with the Juniors from the 1970s and 80s, when we entered teams in the Junior Nationals on the Warwickshire Avon, Trent and L&L Canal, with the team finishing 7th 3 years on the trot. (Quite an achievement against some of the heavily sponsored teams of the day). Practice sessions on the canal were easy to organise, but Wray Wood again doubled as Continue reading Bob Shaw→

The Trout fishing season is officially open from tomorrow 25/03 in the Yorkshire Bylaw areas. As of 25th March at 05:00hrs the club waters that you can fish for trout only until 16th June, are: Newsolme Dean Beck River Aire River Nidd River Swale PLEASE NOTE: River Wharfe – CLOSED – Wray Wood, Boston Spa is now classified as a coarse fishery and will remain CLOSED until 16th June. Permissible Baits On waters where the coarse fish close season applies, during the coarse fish close season you can only use: natural or artificial fly, minnow, worm, shrimp, prawn, sand eel Continue reading Trout Season Opens Tomorrow!→

In light of reports coming in from Wray Wood. With immediate effect Wray Wood fishery has been closed to protect fish stocks and allow undisturbed spawning.