FUTURE OF THE SFCA LEAGUE
- Update from Chris Paton, International Team Manager

My updated plan is to leave things as they are for this current season and then Ewan Weed, Gus Brindle and myself will consult throughout the season both with anglers fishing the league, member clubs and importantly anglers not fishing the league to gather their feedback on how we change things going forward.

This consulatation will take the form of attending various club meetings but also group discussions at Fed matches. We will then put together a joint proposal at the end of the season that should have total support from all clubs and anglers for the start of next year. This would centre around the formation of the Scottish league whether individual or team but also rules around bait, pole limits etc and importantly fitting in with our obligations to SportScotland.

Hopefully you will all agree with giving more time to something that could fundamentally change match fishing in Scotland. I also think with the SFCA League matches not starting until July this allows us time to have a discussion together as a group of match anglers as we have probably not been together as a group since the end of the league last season.

In the interim please encourage as many people to enter this years league. With the deliberate late start it doesn't clash with any other leagues and should see much better fishing. It would be great if we could be having a discussion about making the league better as opposed to try to fix something broken at the end of this season.


Tight lines

Chris Paton

International Team Manager

18 May 2010