Committee
The club secretary's year, month by month
What running an Irish angling club involves across a year: renewals, the stamp, the season opening, permits, juniors, the AGM, and where the admin goes.
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Notes from the riverbank and the committee table
We run an angling club as well as build the software. This is what we have learned about renewals, permits, member data and water quality, and some fishing besides.
- Committee
Running a club: renewals, day permits, GDPR, the secretary’s year.
- On the water
Fishing, with no sales pitch attached.
- River
Water quality, and the monitor we built for our own river.
- Events
Where we’ll be, and what we heard there.
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What an angling club website actually needs
Six things an angling club website needs, three that waste everyone's time, and why the join and permit buttons matter more than the design.
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Digital membership cards, and why the water keeper likes them
A membership card that lives in a phone wallet, works with no signal on the bank, renews itself when the member pays, and stops working when they lapse.
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What a dissolved oxygen reading tells you about whether to fish
Warm water holds less oxygen, and a fish played hard in low oxygen often does not recover. What the numbers mean, and how a club can make a better call.
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Selling day permits without an honesty box
Most clubs sell day tickets through a shop, a hut or an honesty box. Here is what that costs them, and what changes when it moves online.
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Reading a wind on a big lough
Why a flat calm is worse than a good wave, where the wind puts the food, and how to pick a drift on a big Irish lough.
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GDPR for angling club committees: the short version
What GDPR actually asks of a volunteer-run angling club, in plain English. Not a legal opinion, just the things that come up on every committee.
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Lough Logic: free conditions for 24 Irish waters, and what it can't tell you
A free site that pulls weather, water conditions and fisheries reports for 24 Irish waters and suggests what to fish. No account, and some honest limits.
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Why our club stopped taking renewals by cheque
Our club spent every January chasing 260 renewals across cheques, cash and a spreadsheet. Here is what actually went wrong, and what we changed.
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