Ron Laidlaw: Drew Dickson - Fishing

Thu, Jul 6th 2017 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Weekly meeting with guest speaker


At last week's meeting of the Rotary Club President Scott Elliot was away cricket-spectating so Vice-President Mairhi Trickett was in the chair.  The speaker was Drew Dickson who writes the angling column in the local paper as "troot and aboot" and he is also Secretary and Treasurer of Hawick Angling Association.  He started fishing when he was six in Berwickshire where he lived and has been a keen fisher ever since and now lives in Hawick.  He explained the joys and the tribulations of the sport and explained all the different methods employed and the tackle used and now personally uses barbless hooks to protect the fish.  Rods have developed over the years from greenheart and split cane to carbon-fibre and graphite which are lighter and much stronger.  He had also fished in local and national competitions with some success.  The club is on Facebook world-wide and he puts up a daily report on the state of the river Teviot as his dwelling overlooks it and this is popular with fishers over a wide area who appreciate the reports before they travel considerable distances to fish the river. He explained all the fishing locally in an interesting manner, answered many questions which his talk created after which Mairhi Trickett gave the vote of thanks.
The club is donating £100 to the forthcoming Hawick Music Festival to help finance the poetry section.

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