NEW - Our River Eden 2008 Blog gives daily reports on the state of the River Eden at Kirkby Stephen and lets you check the condition of the river before you travel. This link may also help - Weather forecast.

NEW - Online analysis of last season's catch returns

LOST - Fly box (May 2008)

2008-09 Online Catch Returns

Catch Returns can now be completed online. You can submit online returns as you fish (try it!!) or submit one for the whole season (if your memory is up to it!!). Information collected will help us manage our fisheries. All completed catch returns from members are entered into a draw at the AGM with the winner being awarded 50% off their membership fee. Online Analysis of Catch Returns.

2008-09 No stocking this season

KSDAA waters are primarily wild brown trout fisheries. No stocking is carried out. This absence of a 'put and take' policy means that our waters are not always the easiest waters to fish. If you are new to our club and would like a day out with an existing member to pick up a few tips please contact our secretary. No guarantee of a big fish of course but knowledge and friendship will be freely dispensed. To help preserve our stocks of wild trout we encourage our members to return fish. In 2007 we awarded a cash prize for the biggest trout safely returned.

2008-09 Free membership for under 18's

In 2008-09, thanks to help with funding provided by the Environment Agency, we are offering free membership to anglers under 18 years old in order to increase junior angling participation.  However, in order to monitor the success of this scheme, juniors must apply for membership. See membership page. However please remember that 'Junior members of 12 years and older must hold an Environment Agency rod licence (available from all post offices).

KSDAA waters were featured in the April 2006 edition of Trout and Salmon when Paul Proctor expounded the virtues of fishing for wild brown trout on the upper reaches of the River Eden. We don't claim our waters are easy but Paul's parting comment on sampling a day ticket was "I would say the challenge and rewarding fishing on offer here is worth £15 of anyone's money." We think Paul got it right. Read his full report here. Then join. Read on...

Welcome to the web site of Kirkby Stephen and District Angling Association. The club is located in Kirkby Stephen. This website serves members and visitors alike. It gives detailed information on the club and our waters including location, pictures, reports and 'fisherman's tales'. It is a resource aimed at providing up-to-date factual information about what is happening on our waters but it is also intended to provide a wealth of 'crack' as we say here in Cumbria. Hence, like a good book, it should be worth picking up on a cold winter's evening when the river is closed. Here is a collection of 'Fishermen's Tales' to start with.

The reports and stories on the site derive from club members and from visitors. Believe them if you like or read them tongue in cheek but do enjoy them. Whoever said 'pictures don't lie' surely did not live in the days of digital cameras and image enhancement! Hopefully, over time, the pictures and articles on the site will build up to create a resource that will stir the imagination in the closed season and drive us down the river in the spring onwards.

Our website is growing all the time. Contributions, whether factual or 'a good tale', with or without pictures, can be emailed to our secretary. Reports are especially welcome as they give visitors and locals alike an up-to-date picture of what is happening on our rivers at present. Reports also provide a trip down memory lane for our former elderly members who are now too infirm to venture out on to our waters. Please attach pictures whenever possible.

An additional benefit of being a KSDAA member is that you can also fish the waters of other clubs in the Cumberland and Westmorland Angling Alliance. For further information or membership enquiries please phone me on 017683 51552 or contact me by email..

Tight Lines!!
John Garner, Secretary