• 1. Membership shall be for one year only, beginning on the receipt of your club card and car sticker after membership has been paid in full.
• 2. Subscriptions for the year will be due on each subsequent year after first joining.
• 3. Members are requested to carry their membership cards at all times when fishing and may be asked to produce their cards by the club committee on occasion.
• 4. All members must facilitate land owners and be courteous to the landowner in every way without exception.
• 5. Great care must be taken not to damage fences or property of the landowners in any way.
• 6. Gates must be closed after entering and exiting and locked where appropriate on club waters, use styles where available.
• 7. No lighting of fires on landowners property at any time without exception.
• 8. Members are requested to protect the clubs interests by reporting damage to property, removal of fish stocks, illegal dumping and any pollution or fish kills.
• 9. No live bait to be used for pike fishing under current coarse fishing laws.
• 10. All fish to be handled with care and returned alive to the water, we fully conform to the catch and release policy.
• 11. No litter of any kind and club members are expected to keep a particular eye on any litter left on club waters and contact a committee member if such a case seen.
• 12. Cavan Fishing Coarse Angling Club committee or members are not liable for any injury to persons or loss or damage to property in any event.
• 13. Members must abide by the coarse match rules as set out by Cavan Fishing Coarse Angling Club while participating in club organized events.

• 1. Competitors must check in and draw themselves.
• 2. A competitor may break the surface of the water prior to the start of the competition to perform the following tasks:
  
• To clear his swim from weed and obstructions.
     To position his keepnet and tackle.
     To wet and mix his groundbait.
     To plumb the depth of his swim, In plumbing the depth before the start the competitor must not in any way introduce    bait or groundbait into his swim. Any fish accidentally hooked while plumbing must be returned to the water and not placed    in the keepnet.
  
  
• 3. A competitor must normally fish from a point not greater than 1 metre from his peg.
• 4. A competitor may wade out 1 metre from the bank or to a depth of knee height.
• 5. The fishing area (swim) shall normally be defined by points mid-way between the competitor’s peg and those of his left and right hand neighbours. In moving water the boundaries shall be from the competitors peg to that of his downstream neighbour. Any competitor found to be encroaching on another competitors swim shall be disqualified (complaints to be lodged in writing to committee- resulting in investigation).
• 6. No blooodworm or joker.
• 7. No live or dead fish (except in the case of pike match where dead bait is allowed).
• 8. No lures (as above).
• 9. Competitors are encouraged to use a limited amount of groundbait.
• 10. Competitors shall fish with a single rod (or pole), line and a single hook only, unless otherwise stated.
• 11. Poles are limited to 14 metres in total length.
• 12. No cupping in bait or groundbait while a hook is in the water in a single rod match.
• 13. Fish caught must be retained in a suitable keepnet of no less than 8 feet in length. All fish should be gently unhooked and carefully handled. All fish should, after weighing, be gently returned alive to the water. Dead fish shall not be weighed.
• 14. All species of coarse fish except Pike shall be weighed.
• 15. A competitor may not leave his peg save to answer the call of nature or by prior arrangement with the organisers. Within these provisos the angler shall not disturb other competitors. If an angler must leave his peg he must reel in and remove his hook from the water.
• 16. At the end of the competition a competitor shall have 15 minutes to land a fish hooked before the final whistle.
• 17. A competitor must be present to weigh in his catch except by prior arrangement with the organisers.
• 18. Competitors should check their weights on the scales and may be required to sign the weight sheet, confirming acceptance of the weight/score. It is the competitor’s responsibility to ensure that his weight is correct.
• 19. Objections must be submitted to the committee within 1 hour of the final whistle.
• 20. Competitors found in contravention of any of these rules, may on written objection, be disqualified without refund, receiving the maximum number of points on that given day.
• 21. If any member misses a club match during a league they will get the maximum points on that given match day depending on peg numbers. i.e. If there were ten pegs and one person didn't turn up then that angler would receive ten points, if there were two none arrivals they would both receive ten points etc.
• 22. Littered pegs, where litter is a direct result of angling, shall not be weighed.
• 23. Cavan Fishing Coarse Angling Club committee decision is final.

Cavan Fishing Coarse Angling Club is not responsible for any injury to persons or loss or damage to property.