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Benefits of Membership |
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Social Activities
An activities evening is held on the second Tuesday of each month at the Rowing WA Clubhouse, 2 The Esplanade, Canning Bridge, Perth commencing at 8.00pm. Any one of a number of activities are conducted on these evenings, such as fly tying, video presentations, guest speakers, tackle auctions and fly casting lessons.Magazine
A small bi-monthly magazine called Freshwater is published for members information. Included in the magazine are such things club news and planned field events, social gatherings, area fishing reports, articles of interest for members either written by themselves or collected from other publications, cooking recipes and articles on current fishing topics.Videos
The Association maintains a small library of instructional videos pertaining to freshwater angling. These are available to members for hire at a small cost.Accommodation
The Association has a cottage at Pemberton we call 'Rose Cottage', available to members at an affordable rate. Rose Cottage is a former timber workers cottage which is located handy to shops, services and the nearby town swimming pool. Cost are kept down by maintaining the cottage on a self clean basis. Members need to supply their own linen and food.The cottage has 12 beds, a kitchen equipped with a fridge, microwave, electric frypan, hot plate, electric kettle, toaster, crockery and cutlery. There is a lounge where you can relax in front of an open fire after a hard day's fishing.
Field Events
Freshwater angling is not promoted as a competition sport, although the Association does hold a fishing competition/social weekend once each year, usually in September or October on the Queen's birthday long week-end.Other annual events are the Winter Wash (a social team's event) on the Foundation Day long week-end in June. There is a Redfin Perch safari and camp out between Feb/April and a social Marron snaring night usually on the second Saturday of the Marron season.