The Club Code

Fly Fishers share a common bond. In the main, we are all dedicated to enhancing the quality of the waters where we fish; the health of the quarry for which we fish; and the knowledge and skill of our colleagues and ourselves.

Further, we share these common values:

• We do not litter or pollute the waters we fish, nor do we enter private lands to fish unless first securing permission from the owner.

• We respect the customs and traditions of the areas where we fish, and resist imposing the mores appropriate to our home waters.

• We respect the right of other anglers. We will not fish another’s pool unless invited to do so, and upon such invitation, will endeavour to preserve as much of the host’s solitude as we would wish for ourselves.

• We respect the species we seek by educating ourselves about their life cycles, habits and diets.

• We refrain from placing additional stress on fish populations pressured by the spawning cycle, vagaries of water flow and temperature, disease, pollution or other adversity.

• We practice and advocate catch and release angling, where not prohibited by law.

• We take no more fish than required for an occasional meal. Cameras not bag limits record our trophies.

• We obey both the letter and spirit of all laws governing our quarry and the waters we fish.

• We actively support legislation that protects and improves game fisheries, and we oppose that which will negatively impact such fisheries.

• We seek to encourage young people in our sport, knowing that, without succeeding generations of fly fishers, gains in the quality of water and fish populations will be lost.