Promoting the Fraternity across the World
The Provincial Grand Master of South Wales RW Bro. Gareth Jones, OBE has kindly agreed to the formation of a new branch of the Masonic Fishing Charity here within the Province of South Wales. The Masonic Fishing Charity provides an interactive fishing experience, trout and coarse, for anyone above the age of eleven with life … Read more
The initiative, which is funded by the Freemasons, helps children to learn new skills, improve their self confidence and enjoy a new hobby.
The scheme is already being run in other parts of the country and it is now being set up across North Somerset and Somerset.
Tuesday, 17th January 2017
Meetings & Ceremonies
The Warwickshire Branch of the Masonic Trout and Salmon Fishing Charity (MTSFC) held its autumn event at Warwickshire Fly Fishers waters at Wolvey on 20th October 2016. A Warwickshire school had previously been invited to nominate a group of their students to attend with support from teachers and helpers which the headmaster gratefully accepted as … Read more
Many of us grew up in the 1960s and 70s where, for some, it was a time of making out a living repairing cars, exterminating pests or hop picking. Boys were taught to fish by their fathers during the weekends, cast after cast plopping into willow-shaded water, while weekdays were spent at the secondary school where, for some, gardening and metalwork were still being taught. Fishing is an unsentimental memoir of that time and nothing has changed for those boys today. As adults they continue to carry out the traditions of fishing as taught by their fathers and pass this knowledge on to the children who have a love for the sport.
