MEMBERSHIP The current membership now stands at 38, consisting of 1 honorary member, 36 ordinary members, and 1 junior member, with John Ross, a friend of Ross McKay joining at last months outing to Loch Etive.| CORRESPONDENCE OUT Letter to the SFSA which included a cheque for our annual subscription. Cheque to cover our annual subscription to the Clyde &West Region. ADDRESSES AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES Would any member who hasn’t received a newsletter by post (unless they have declined this method), or does not receive an e-mail notification that a newsletter has been posted online, please let me know so that I have an up to date list, and can post and/or include them on the e-mail notification list. And if you are quite happy to get your newsletter electronically, and not by post, could you also let me know either way. CAR BOOT SALE The original date for this, Sunday, 15th April has now been cancelled and a new potential date of Sunday13th May has been chosen. So if you are planning a loft, house, or garage clearout, please consider donating any goods to this cause. As usual, any time that members can give to being there on the day will be greatly appreciated, be it a few hours or a full day. FUTURE CLUB OUTING DATES BOAT Licensed for SHORE Sun 01 Apr Crinan 10 Sun 22 April Glencaple Meet 10.00am Fish 11.00am – 4.00pm Sun 06 May Girvan 10 Sun 20 May Abbey Burnfoot Meet 13.00pm Fish 2.00pm – 8.00pm Sun10 June Arbroath 12 Sun 24 June Ardwell Back Bay Meet 12.00pm Fish 1.00pm – 7.00pm Sun 01July Portpatrick 10 Sat/Sun 21-22 July Loch Aline To be decided ** Sun 26 Aug Portpatrick 10 Sun Aug 12 Dunbar/Tyningham Meet 1.00pm Fish 2.00pm – 8.00pm Sun 02 Sep Berwick 12 Sat Sep 16 Stairhaven/ Terally Meet 3.00pm Fish 4.00pm – 10.00pm Sun 07 0ct Oban/ Etive 12 Sat Oct 13 Loch Etive Church (provisional) Meet 9.00pm Fish 10.00pm – 4.00am Sun 04 Nov Etive 12 Sat Nov 10 Loch Etive Church (provisional) Meet 7.00pm Fish 8.00pm – 2.00am Sun 02 Dec Etive 12 Sat Dec 15 Arbroath area To be decided **Loch Aline outing will be open to guests from the close of the May meeting. Deposits payable. Accommodation has been investigated and should work out at around £25 per night. Those that would like to take part please let me (David McNair Shore Convener) knows, so I can sort out and finalise arrangements. Initial accommodation is for 10-12, but should there be greater interest, I will attempt to source more The actual championship event will run over 28hr period 12:00 sat until 16:00 Sunday which allows club members to take part as a day trip only The next meetings will be as follows: Committee Meeting Club Meeting Monday 16 th April 2012 Thursday 26th April 2012 TREASURER’S REPORT As at 19th March Cash in hand…₤218.11 Treasurers account… ₤126.27 100 club…₤1846.08 SKILLS NIGHT DATES The next skills night will take place on Tuesday 10th April, at 7.00pm in the Ralston Community Centre, Allanton Avenue. The subject tonight will be about bait keeping etc. Boat Convenor’s Report. Loch Etive 04 / 03 / 2012 Loch Etive 4th March 2012 No. fish caught Pos 1 2 3 4 Name S. Frayling 14 N. Fennell 14 I. Campbell 15 B. McRae 13 E. Frayling 9 W. Carr 5 11 R. Howe 6 9 6 R. Mackay 10 I. Walker 6 10 B. McCormack 9 8 S. Walker 10 14 Total No. fish caught: 127 Heaviest fish: E. Frayling 9lb 6oz Ling Species Spurdog, L.S.D, Mackerel Spurdog, Whiting, Mackerel Spurdog, Mackerel Spurdog Spurdog, Ling Spurdog, Whiting, Mackerel Spurdog, Whiting, Cod Spurdog, Mackerel Spurdog, Mackerel Spurdog, Pouting, Poor cod, Mackerel Spurdog, Mackerel Boat Score Club Points 40 37 36 35 34 29 27 27 26 25 24 100 93 90 88 73 68 68 65 63 60 The winter and Annual Championship standings are now: Loch Etive 100 97 78 44 41 34 56 44 51 46 37 - Loch Etive 94 100 73 65 21 26 21 21 44 32 Loch Etive 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 R. Howe S. Walker W. Carr N. Fennell I. Campbell S. Frayling B. McRae B. McCormack I. Walker P. Crawford A. Lambie S. Fitton R. Mackay P. Hutchison R. Wilson G. McVey Loch Etive 04/12/2011 Name Loch Etive 06/11/2011 Pos Loch Etive 09/10/2011 Senior Winter Boat Championship 2011 / 2012 61 49 47 31 16 100 33 18 - 87 37 57 57 82 100 74 39 63 - 76 52 52 57 63 100 35 24 41 70 - 68 60 73 93 90 100 88 63 65 68 - Points 486 395 380 347 313 300 283 247 211 104 95 70 68 46 37 32 The table for most number of different species caught for the 2010 / 2011 is as follows: x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Total Haddock Coalfish Plaice Smooth hound Bullhuss Conger eel Tub Gurnard Grey Gurnard x x x Wrasse, Cuckoo x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x Wrasse, Ballan Rays, Thornback Pouting x Whiting x x x x x x Spurdog x Poor Cod x Pollack x Mackerel Ling Cod x x R. Howe N. Fennell S. Frayling B. McCormack W. Carr A. Lambie P. Hutchison P. Crawford S. Walker I. Campbell A. Lambie I. Walker B. McRae S. Fitton R. Mackay G. McVey R. Wilson L.s.d 1 2 3 3 5 6 6 6 6 6 11 11 11 11 11 16 17 Red Gurnard Greatest number of different species 7 6 5 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 100 97 78 44 41 34 56 44 51 46 37 - 61 49 47 31 16 100 33 18 - 87 37 57 57 82 100 74 39 63 - 76 52 52 57 63 100 35 24 41 70 - Loch Etive 04/03/2012 94 100 73 65 21 26 21 21 44 32 Loch Etive 05/02/2012 Loch Etive 08/01/2012 R. Howe S. Walker W. Carr N. Fennell I. Campbell S. Frayling B. McRae B. McCormack I. Walker P. Crawford A. Lambie S. Fitton R. Mackay P. Hutchison R. Wilson G. McVey Loch Etive 04/12/2011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Name Loch Etive 06/11/2011 Pos Loch Etive 09/10/2011 The annual senior boat championship table 2011 / 2012 68 60 73 93 90 100 88 63 65 68 - Points 486 395 380 347 313 300 283 247 211 104 95 70 68 46 37 32 Junior: Loch Etive 04/03/2012 Pos Name No. Fish Caught 1 E. Frayling 9 Species Spurdog, Ling Boat Score 34 Club Score 100 Name E. Frayling Loch Etive 04/03/2012 Pos 1 Loch Etive 05/02/2012 Junior Winter Boat Championship 2011 / 2012 100 Points 200 100 Heaviest Bag Heaviest Fish Name S. Walker R. Howe S. Frayling B. Mcrae S. Frayling S. Frayling Name W. Carr R. Howe S. Frayling B. Mcrae B. McRae & P. Crawford E. Frayling Location Loch Etive Loch Etive Loch Etive Loch Etive Loch Etive Loch Etive Location Loch Etive Loch Etive Loch Etive Loch Etive Loch Etive Date 9th Oct 2011 6th Nov 2011 4th Dec 2011 8th Jan 2012 5th Feb 2012 4th Feb 2012 Date 9th Oct 2011 6th Nov 2011 4th Dec 2011 8th Jan 2012 5th Feb 2012 Points 34 41 49 38 46 40 Weight 6lb 2oz Ling 1lb 14oz Spurdog 4lb Thornback 3lb 8oz Spurdog 2lb 7oz Spurdog Loch Etive 4th Mar 2012 9lb 6oz Ling Future boat trips Venue Crinan Girvan Arbroath Portpatrick Portpatrick Berwick Oban / Etive Etive Etive Date of Trip Places 01 / 04 / 2012 06 / 05 / 2012 10 / 06 / 2012 01 / 07 / 2012 26 / 08 / 2012 02 / 09 / 2012 07 / 10 / 2012 04 / 11 / 2012 02 / 12 / 2012 10 10 12 10 10 12 12 12 12 Nominated species for 2011 / 20112 for the boat will be as follows: Spurdog - Pollack - Ballan wrasse – Ling – Cod L.s.d. – Thornback – Whiting - Cuckoo Wrasse Whiting Next boat trip will be on Sunday 4th March 2012. Names so. Shore Convenor’s Report At the time of printing, the shore report wasn’t in my possession, so may be included at the rear of the newsletter as a late print. NOMINATED SPECIES CHAMPIONSHIP SHORE 2011/2012 0.6 Total Points 12.02 0.54 Ballan Wrasse 6.7 Whiting 4.11 Turbot 7.48 Tope 4.54 Spur Dog 0.68 2.78 1.28 Smooth Hound Thornback Ray Pollack Plaice 1.13 Mullet (TL) Grey 1.45 Haddock 1.47 0.48 Flounder 17 Dogfish (LS) 12.7 Dab 5.13 2.04 Common Eel Conger Cod Coalfish 5.3 Bull Huss Bass Club Record KG 2.38 Angler S. MacMaster 2.608 0.851 1.53 21 59 20 Points J. Smyth 1.418 Points 98 P. Crawford 98 1.87 0.84 Points 15 58 28 R. Swan 1.559 0.851 0.227 0.567 12 Points W. Pollock Points 0.44 101 12 59 20 0.88 0.37 33 22 11 61 1.62 0.56 13 39 Points Points 0.312 1.418 R. Wilson D. McNair 100 38 141 0.82 12 2.86 0.39 19 J. McLaughlin 0.227 139 5.15 38 77 1.871 2.0128 167 25 30 74 0.7 0.482 Points 48 R. Finlay 78 46 0.51 3.686 35 55 Points I. Campbell 91 3.09 Points R. McKay 43 1.134 0.961 0.312 Points 66 N. Fennell 124 90 2.31 28 34 128 0.979 Points 68 68 BOAT 2011/2012 1.57 2.22 Total Points 6.92 Cuckoo Wrasse Ballan Wrasse 8.39 Whiting 5.55 1.247 Spur Dog 6.41 Thornback Ray 2.4 Pouting Pollack Ling Dogfish (L.S.) Cod Club Record KG 9.92 0.8 Angler S. Walker 1.644 Points 30 I. Walker Points B. McRae Points P. Crawford Points 22 26 16 94 2.552 Points R. Howe 1.843 1.786 0.255 46 0.709 0.822 1.871 7 34 29 46 1.701 1.418 0.284 20 20 18 128 1.588 23 23 1.106 16 16 MEMBER PICTURE Well, there must have been a few that didn’t recognise last months pic. If you were one of the few, the pic was of our Chairman Joe McLaughlin. Can you recognise or even guess who this months butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth, angelic child is? Can you put a name to him? The identity will be revealed next month. Right chaps, LOOKING FOR MORE PICS. The pic should be when you were a youngster. E-mail me them, post them, hand them to me, whatever way suits. …………………………………………………………………….. MEMBER PROFILE… Not quite finished it yet as other things got in the way of it, and initially I was going to include what I had and call it part 1, and the remainder next month and maybe call it …eh… part 2. I decided I would leave it till next month. So to give you something to read, I have included a guide to rough pubs. So here goes. This article or section may be Overly British. Americans may not understand humour, only humor. Canadians and Australians may not understand anything at all. Don't change a thing to remedy this. “The landlord of The Broken Arms, Brentford, took issue with my smoking jacket and general demeanour, mistaking me for someone called "Nancy". Funny story, and the main reason I walk this walk to this day. Never did find those missing teeth though...” ~ Noel Coward on Rough Pubs In every town in any country with a pub culture, there will be at least one rough pub. The names change from venue to venue, but they can be recognised by certain traits they all share such as broken windows, semi-derelict appearance, mouldy plasterwork and smell. If you walk past a pub and later discover you have caught fleas, you can be certain that you've found a rough pub. How To Find A Rough Pub If, for some reason, you feel the desire to go drinking in a rough pub, you will first need to locate such an establishment. Rough pubs can be found in different places in different countries. A number of Rough Pub Guides can be found in most good book stores. In Britain, they can generally be found in deprived city centres or on industrial estates. Friendly local neo-Nazis may be able to enlighten you as to their whereabouts, otherwise just watch which direction all the police cars head towards at closing-time on a Saturday night. Should you stumble across a rough pub while it's closed - and many of them never close - you will be able to recognise it as a traditional rough pub by the bloodstains and puddles of vomit on the pavement in front and unconscious drinkers slumped up against the exterior walls. American rough pubs - known as rough bars - tend to be placed in different areas to those commonly taken by their British equivalents. For a start, they're usually in America. Most of them will be situated out of town, often on the state line or in the desert. They usually have a large car-park (or parking lot) at the front, which will be full of Harley-Davidsons, hot-rods and trucks, which makes them much easier to spot than British rough pubs. Australian rough pubs are the easiest of all to find. Ask any local where the local pub is (you may have to ask in Strine. Try: "G'day moit. Ya wouldn' happen ta' know whe' th' nearest watering-hole eez would ya?", or the simpler "Whereza pub?") and then follow their directions. It doesn't matter which pub they direct you to, because all Australian pubs are rough pubs. If you find yourself in an Australian city, just walk 20 meters in any direction and you will find yourself outside a pub, which will be guaranteed to be rough, as the roughness of a pub is a legal condition of its liquor license. The Scottish have regulated their rough pubs and helpfully relocated them all to one area. If you can find Glasgow, you've found the rough pubs. Confirmation that you're in a Glasgow pub invariably takes the form of the friendly greeting, "What are you lookin' at?" In New York City rough bars often have people passed out outside in pools of vomit. This is confirmed when the bartender asks "You talkin' to me wiseguy?" when you order a drink. Types of Rough Pub Eric Babyface McMiggins, diminutive Landlord of "The Angry Dwarf", Cambridge is currently serving 3 to 5 at Her Majesty's pleasure following the "accidental" death of 47 of his regulars. Many rough pubs are consciously rough. The management (often retired gangsters) are well aware of their establishment's reputation and wish to preserve it, hence they name their pub something along the lines of "The Pitbull and Hammer" (pictured above) or "The White Supremacist". This type is the classical British rough pub and often serves as the centre of the community, holding free events for the local populace such as British National Party meetings and hosting gigs by far-right neo-nazi skinheads. Oirish rough pubs are, interestingly, never found in Oireland where all the pubs are full of cheery, happy-go-lucky men all named Paddy or Mick and beautiful red-headed ladies named Siobhan (pronounced Sarah). The clientele of these establishments spend all day every day drinking Guinness (which, they will tell you, is far better than the stuff you get in London) and listening to live traditional Celtic music. If the pub ever closes, they merrily make their way home, perhaps stopping to shoot a (preferably British) Protestant or two and maybe plant a few bombs, if the mood takes them. To find an Oirish rough pub, you will need to go looking in the UK - the best way to find one is to listen outside a few different pubs until you come to one where somebody is singing Danny Boy, very loudly, very drunkenly, and getting the words wrong. 'Wanky' rough pubs are often disguised as wine bars, cocktail bars or ten-pin bowling alleys. Most large towns have at least one, often to be found in an old, converted cinema or warehouse. These are the largest pubs of any type and may have a capacity of over a thousand people - however, on a Friday or Saturday night, they will often squeeze in more than three times this amount. Scientists who specialise in pubology have not yet been able to explain why every person in a pub of this type will be named either Kevin or Wayne if male, or Sharon (Sheila in Australia) or Tracy (pronounced Try-see) in the case of females. Mongolian pubs are a lot like our own but without the smell of yak urine and the women are a lot less hairier. Beers Mongolian pubs are a lot like our own but without the smell of yak urine and the women are a lot less hairier. Wifebeater XXXX is by far the most popular drink in rough pubs. Based in Belgium, this brewer has attempted to improve its image by sponsoring independent and art film festivals, also paying for such films to be shown on national television in the UK. However, it remains the favoured beverage of British chavs, neds, and violent arseholes. Wifebeater comes in bottles made of extra-thick glass, making them the most suitable bottles to smash people in the face with during a pub fight. Scheißebräu is also served in British rough pubs. This high quality German beer is often found in the roughest of pubs. This beer is popular among the chavs, gaining a huge amount of drinkers in 1992 when it was banned across most of Europe for its violent after-effects. This beer is made of roughly 0% alcohol, but the chavs, neds, and liberal undesirables who drink it are such lightweights that they would get drunk if they took a deep breath of British puke air on a misty morning. 15% Skull****** known as Special Brew, was originally brewed to cater for the 'crazy street-drinker' demographic, a valuable niché market for brewing firms as drinkers of this type often spend as much as £50 a day on alcohol. All rough pubs serve cider, because cider is the favourite drink of teenage girls, and rough pubs want to attract teenage girls because they in turn attract lecherous old men - one of the biggest drinking groups yet identified. However, almost all pubs serve cider, so discovering it in a pub is not necessarily a sign that the establishment is a rough pub. You will need to pay attention to how the cider is served: if it comes by the cute little British dimpled pint, you are probably not in a rough pub. If it's served in a three-litre blue bottle with a label saying "Diamond White," you are almost certainly in a rough pub. If not, ask for a Dicken's Cider. A sure sign of a rough pub is a methylated-spirits tap on the bar. The better type of rough pub will have two types - traditional Meths, consumed at room temperature, and Meths Extra Cold for the ladies. Urine remains a perennial favourite tipple, generally from the tap marked 'F.' The Licensee Smiler McPsycho, the landlord of "The Merry Stabbers", Bristol, warmly welcomes all new clientele. As stated previously, the landlord of any rough pub is likely to be an ex-gangster, who will have acquired the capital to buy the premises by robbing a bank. It is quite likely that they have kept the sawn-off shotgun they used and now keep it under the bar to help persuade anyone who complains that the beer is watered down that this in not, in fact, the case. One notable example of this type of licensee is Peggy, landlady of the notorious Queen Victoria situated in Albert Square, Walford, London, who made an undisclosed sum of money from various illegal activities in the East End during the 1960s. In the case of Oirish rough pubs, the licensee is very unlikely to actually be Oirish - especially if it's an American Oirish pub (although their great-great-great grandparents may have met an Oirishman once). One rare example of an Oirish rough pub with a landlord who is, in fact, Oirish is Pete O'Phile, landlord of "The Pig and Hurl" in Liverpool (note: 'hurl' refers to the axe-shaped weapon stick used in the traditional Oirish sport known as hurling, rather than to bodily functions displayed by regulars after their seventeenth pint of Guinness at about 2pm every afternoon). Food A packet of pork scratchings, my good man.... Rough pub-style meat curry, as served at "The Track-Marked Arms", Chavham, Kent. That's not a parsley garnish, it's actually something growing on it. On the whole, food in rough pubs will be limited to crisps, served by the packet from a large box with the best-before date scribbled out. However, in recent years, rough pubs began to experiment with other foodstuffs in an attempt to increase their turn-over. The first food tried was peanuts, which went on sale at "The Sawn-Off and Rottweiler Tavern" in Bradford, in 1989. Peanuts were an instant success, with sales of over 20 packs a week. The manufacturer of the peanuts then came up with a revolutionary idea - they attached the packets to a piece of card with a picture of a naked lady printed on it which could be hung behind the bar, so that every pack bought revealed a bit more of the image. Sales instantly rocketed to 40 packs a day. Once it was shown that food could be a valuable money-spinner in rough pubs (after all, a high percentage of the clientele in rough pubs never leave, and they have to eat occasionally), several establishments introduced other dishes. As a case in point, "The Pitbull and Hammer" currently has an extensive menu, including the following: Special Brew and Kebab Meat Pie, made from road-kill the freshest ingredients and deep-frozen then warmed up in the microwave cooked to order by their NVQ Cookery (failed) fully-trained chef. The recipe is along the lines of that traditional and popular British pub staple, the Steak and Ale Pie, but adapted so as to appeal to Real Men. Meat Curry at just £1 a plate. Named Meat Curry at £2 a plat Microwaved pies which are scalding hot round the crust but frozen solid at the meat (if you want to call it that) centre. Rough Pub Games'Big' Bev Buckfast, a regular at "The Crow Bar," Portsmouth is the current reigning champion in the all UK Happy Slapping League. (Picture of Codeine's Mother kindly provided by Codeine) Pub games have been a feature of pubs since pubs were first invented, and usually take the form of darts, snooker, cribbage, dominos and the like - pleasant, gentle games that can be played for small wagers. Rough pubs have adapted some of these activities to suit their discerning clientele, for example: Traditionally, darts is played by throwing small, pointed darts at a dartboard. In rough pubs, this has been transformed into a game known as shooting, in which a hand-gun is used to propel a small metallic object known as a 'bullet' into the head of 'that ******* who still owes me a hundred quid for that cocaine I sold 'im last month, the ****.' Snooker has been replaced with a game known as GBH, which requires less space because it does not use the large and ungainly snooker table - this has the added advantage of freeing up more space to fit drinkers into. Instead, the snooker cues are smashed round the head of a similar character to that used in 'shooting.' Fighting is a popular game in rough pubs. The participants in rough pub fights usually have no training from a recognised body such as a martial arts club, and hence are often over-looked as sportsmen. However, anyone who can hold their own down "The Cross-Bow and Coke-Habit" come closing-time on a Saturday night is a true professional. Badger Baiting. Contrary to popular belief, badgers are not the gentle and jovial creatures that appear in The Tales of Beatrix Potter and The Wind In The Willows. They're actually extremely hard, vicious and usually very pissed-off mentalists that spend much of their time getting shit-faced on rotten, fermenting apples. Feeding a badger a bottle of Scotch and shoving it in a pit with a couple of English Bull Terriers is a popular entertainment in many rough pubs, with most establishments waiving their usually-strict 'No Children' rule so that the kids of regulars can come along and join in the fun. Clientele Fun and fellowship at "The Razorblade and Racist Inn", Oldham, Lancs, as regulars enjoy a televised football match. Walk into any rough pub anywhere in the world, and you can meet exactly the same sort of people. No matter which country, and no matter which type of rough pub, only the accents of the regulars change. Gangsters can be found drinking in all rough pubs, not just running them. You can recognise them by their facial scars (worn proudly as proof of surviving a Glesga Chibbing' attack) and limping, a sign that they've been knee-capped at some time in the past. They will usually wear a suit with an odd, gun-shaped bump on the chest. Gangstas can also be found in rough pubs. This group can be recognised by the way they talk - much like a combination of the gangsters and Rastafarians. Rather than suits, they tend to wear clothing with fake designer labels and baseball caps. Homo Habilis They first appeared on Earth about 2 million years ago. They did not do much at first and just sat at home inventing things like the wheel, discovering things like fire and trying to beat their previous highscore on geometry wars. Now they have given up these former hobbies and have instead taken it upon themselves to rid the world of bad booze. They are however doing this in a stupid way; they have not grasped the concept of supply and demand. Women, of a sort, can often be found in rough pubs. The younger ones are usually touting for business and can be recognised easily as they often have at least two small, screaming children stuffed under the table (and often a small, screaming child-to-be on the way stuffed in the womb). They will be drinking either cider or WKD Blue. The older variety are best kept away from although they tend to be in the rough pub to get drunk rather than to find trade, many of them will, after thirty pints a glass of wine or two, develop a delusion that they 'still have it'. This will lead them to try to ensnare the attentions of a young man - if you are unfortunate enough to be the young man in question, be warned that this sort of 'woman' is not actually a human woman at all, but a type of vaguely-female monster that is much, much stronger than you. If she wants it, you won't be able to do a thing to stop her. END.