RULES

1. Name/Title:   

   The Torbay & Babbacombe Association of Sea Anglers

2. Objectives:

a. To encourage sea angling as a sport and conservation of the
    marine environment.

b. To organise competitions on the foreshore, piers, breakwaters
    and at sea.

c. To maintain fish record lists for seniors, juniors and ladies for
    boat and shore caught fish.

d. To promote Torbay as an angling centre.

3. Governing Body:

a. The affairs of the Association shall be administered by its officers
    and committee. All are honorary positions.

b. Composition:    President,  Vice   President(s),   Life   Members,
    Chairman, Vice Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, Fish Recorder,
    Fishing   Chairman,   Membership   Secretary,   Junior  Chairman,
    Junior Vice Chairman, Social Chairman, Clerk of the Scales, Cup
    Custodian, Publicity Officer, Magazine Editor, plus ten committee
    members.  The President and Vice President(s) shall be elected
    annually, and are ex-officio members, and are entitled to vote at
    all committee meetings. Elected life Members are entitled to vote
    at committee and general meetings.

4. Election of Officers:

   All officers and committee of the Association shall be elected annually

    at the annual general meeting to serve for one year or until the next

    annual general meeting. Before election, nominees must have been

    fully paid up members of the Association for a minimum of one year.

    Nominations for officers and committee to be submitted to the

    Secretary in writing at least ten days before the annual general

    meeting. Where insufficient nominations are received in writing,

    nominations can be accepted from the floor at the annual general

    meeting. Members co-opted onto the committee are entitled to vote.

a. Nominations for Life Members and Vice Presidents have to be
    submitted to the committee and if accepted, will be put before the
    next annual general meeting for acceptance.

b. Vice Presidents and Life Members are entitled to one vote each at

   the annual general meeting and all extra ordinary meetings.

5. Committee Powers:

a. The Committee is empowered to hold, administer and dispose of
    all properties and assets of the association.

b. To set the annual subscription.

c. To make Bye Laws, and Competition and Fishing Rules and to
    take any action which they may resolve to be embraced by the
    objectives as set out in Rule 2.  The Association Rules can only
    be amended or additions  made,  except for Bye Laws and
    Competition and Fishing Rules, at the General Meeting called in
    accordance with Rule 8.

   A simple majority of those present will be needed for any proposal

    to be passed. Bye Laws, competition and fishing rules can be changed

    or alterations made by the committee by a simple majority vote of those

    present. The change to be notified to the membership within a

    reasonable time.

d. The Chairman shall preside at all committee meetings.  If absent
    the Vice Chairman shall preside.   If they are both absent, the
    senior officer present shall take the chair.

e. A quorum for all committee meetings shall be made up of eight
    officers and/or committee members.

f. The committee shall meet monthly, and shall meet a minimum of
    ten times in each club year.

g. A committee  member who  is  absent for three consecutive
    meetings without suitable reason, or who fails to notify the
    secretary of their intended absence, will automatically cease to
    be a member of the committee.

6. Subscriptions:

   Set annually by the Committee.

a. The club year will commence on December 1st or upon joining
    and end on November 30th.

b. New   members   joining   the   association   in   October.      Their
    subscription will be for fourteen months until November 30th of
    the following year.

c. Members not having paid their full subscription by 1st March of
    any year would be deemed to have left the club, and would need
    to seek re-election.

d. Fish caught before annual subscription or visitors subscription
    are paid, are not eligible for any club records awards, prizes or

   medals and awards of Federations or Associations to which the

    Association is affiliated, except, members will be permitted to register

    fish for club records, awards, prizes and medals and awards of

    Federations and Associations, the Association is affiliated to between

    December 1st and the next annual meeting, providing their

    subscription is paid not later than the date of the annual general meeting.

7. Membership:

a. Candidates   for   membership   to   the   Association,   must   be
    proposed by and seconded by a fully paid up senior member of
    the Association.  Acceptance to the Association will be a simple
    majority  vote   of  the   committee.      Once   accepted   by  the
    committee, all fish caught by the new member from the date of
    their proposal form together with their subscription will be eligible
    for club prizes, awards and trophies.

b. A junior is aged under sixteen years of age. On reaching the age
    of sixteen, he or she will remain a junior member until the end of
    the club year, but all fish caught after their sixteenth birthday will
    be registered as senior caught fish.

c. Temporary membership is available only to those living outside
    the County of Devon, and for a maximum period of four weeks, at
    a fee of £5.00.    Any challenge cup or trophy awarded to a
    temporary member will stay with the Association, but their name
    will be engraved upon it, if names are usually engraved upon it.

d. Netsmen who use gill, mono,  Longlines and ray type nets,
    whether fixed or drift, are full time or part time, amateur or
    commercial   fishermen  are  barred  from   membership  of the
    Association.

   The annual general meeting must be held in the early part of
    each club year. Extra ordinary general meetings may be called at
    the written request of eight or more ordinary paid up members of
    the Association. Only such business as given on the notice shall
    be discussed and voted on.   Members to receive not less than
    ten days clear notice of all annual and extra ordinary meetings.

   Treasurer's Duties:

   To bank all monies received by the Association and to prepare a

   balance sheet which shall be audited and presented at the

    Annual General Meeting.

10. Trophies:

   All cups and trophies to be the property of the Association, and

   to be insured annually by the Association where appropriate.

    They must be returned to the Association's Cup Custodian not later

    than October 31st of each year.

11. Fishing Limits:

   Fish eligible for all Association competitions and prizes and trophies

    must have been caught to the west of a line drawn from the old

    Severn road bridge on the north coast, to Portland Bill on the south coast,

    Include the coastline of the Isle of Portland and Weymouth Harbour.

    The Channel Islands and boats leaving Weymouth harbour are excluded.

12. Fishing Rules:

a. Fishing from any structure which rises and falls with the tide
    shall be classed as boat fishing, e.g. marinas, pontoons.

b. A boat trip is defined as a boat leaving a harbour ,river or
    launching area within Association's boundaries and returning to
    that same harbour, river or launching area within 24 hours,
    without landing at any other port, harbour, river or launching
    area.

c. Inshore boat fishing is defined as being within 5 miles of the
    shore line within the club's boundaries, excluding all wrecks.
    All fish caught outside a five mile limit will be classified as being
    a wreck caught fish.   All drifts commenced over a wreck, is
    wreck fishing for the duration of the drift.

13. Any   member   heard   voicing   adverse   criticism,   writing   or
    publishing   defamatory   remarks   about  the   Association,   or
    bringing the Association into disrepute will be brought before
    the Committee for disciplinary action, which may result in that
    person being barred from the Association.  Any person barred
    from membership of another angling club or association will not
    be eligible for membership of the Torbay and Babbacombe ASA.

  

Bye Laws

1. Subscriptions:

   Seniors £15.00, Husband and Wife £18.00, Family £20.00

    i.e. 2 adults, maximum of 2 children under 16 years,

    Juniors £3.00, Visitors £5.00. Student (16 to 18 in full time education)

    £5.00

2. The Association will maintain record lists for seniors, juniors,
    and ladies from boat and shore. Juniors and ladies can hold
    records on the seniors list.

3. The Association will be affiliated to the Angling Trust and

    British Conger Club, or any other Association or Federation

    they may decide from time to time.

a. Members to fish to Angling Trust Rules which allow a maximum
    of two rods, to which a maximum of three hooks are attached.
    A pennel rig will be deemed one hook providing the distance
    between the hook eyes do not exceed 10cm (four inches) for
    shore rigs and 20cm (eight inches) for boat rigs.

b. All fish must be weighed ON SHORE on certified scales.   All
    specimen  and  club  record  fish  must  be witnessed  by a
    committee member in accordance with rule 3e. Fish registered
    with another Club, Association or Federation, other than those
    listed under Bye Law 3 cannot win Association prizes, cups,
    trophies, medals, or become an Associate record.

c. All fish must be weighed within twenty four hours of capture on
    scales    approved    by   the    Association.        In    exceptional
    circumstances fish may be weighed at another recognised
    Angling  Club,  by a recognised tradesman  i.e. fishmonger,
    greengrocer, butcher, or other nominated committee member,
    providing the scales comply with the weights and measurers
    orders and or the Angling Trust Rules.  Specie, weight, port of
    departure,   and   boat   names   where   appropriate,   must   be
    recorded on the club weight docket or tradesman's official Club
    docket, or tradesman's official headed note paper, and signed
    by the person weighing the fish.   All weight dockets must be
    forwarded to the Association's Fish Recorder within seven days.
    Weight   dockets   not   forwarded   to   the   Association's   Fish
    Recorder within seven days may not be considered for Angling
    Trust   monthly   or   annual   awards.      It   is   the   members
    responsibility to get the weight dockets to the Association's
    Fish Recorder.

d. It is the responsibility of all Association members fishing in
    open competitions or matches, including inter club matches,
    whether organised by the Association or others, to collect a
    certified weight docket and send to the Association's Fish
    Recorder.

e. All specimen fish  and  potential  club record fish  must  be
    identified and verified by an officer or committee member of the
    Association or an officer or committee member of another
    recognised Angling Club.   Members may be requested to take
    or send their fish at their own expense to the Marine Biological

   Association of the UK at Plymouth if identification cannot be

   positively made by the Association's Clerk of the Scales,

    before acceptance for Association records, prizes or trophies.

f. Minimum Sizes

   Any fish brought to the scales for weighing by a member below

    the minimum size as listed in the current Association's handbook

    will render their catch void.

g. Mackerel caught from boat or shore on feathers are not eligible
    for any club awards.

4. Competitions:

a. For all Association competitions, trophies and medals, fish will
    be compared against Torbay & Babbacombe ASA specimen
    weights list.

b. Angling Trust medal awards.  All fish will be compared against
    the Angling Trust specimen list for the area where the fish was
    caught.

c. For Wyvern Division, or other Federation or Association awards,
    fish will be compared against their individual specimen weight
    list.

d. Competition weigh-ins.  Roving and boat competition weigh-ins
    will be at the place and time designated on the annual fixture
    list.    On fixed venue competitions, weigh-ins will be at the
    venue, at the time and place given on the competition fixture
    list.

e. A fish caught on a two day Bank Holiday competition, will for
    the fish of the month competition be recorded on date of
    capture, and not date of the weigh-in.

f. On all club competitions, where a junior wins a senior prize, that
    junior cannot win a junior prize with the same fish.

g. All juniors fishing in boat competitions must wear approved life-
    jacket.  It is the responsibility of all parents or guardians or the
    boat owner, not the Association to see this rule is enforced.

h. The decision of the appointed steward for each competition

    shall be final in all disputes arising during or after the competition.

    He/she may defer that decision and place the complaint before the

    committee whose decision will be final.

i.  In open competitions trophies will be retained and a replica w

   ill be issued for angler to keep.

5. Members of the Association cannot take more than two    

   annual trophies with one fish with the exception of the Association

   Trophy and Aggregate Trophies.

   The mouth of the River Dart is determined by an imaginary line

   between Dartmouth Castle and Kingswear Castle.

   Any trophy damaged while in the possession of an Association

   member, then that member may be required to repair the trophy

   at their expense.

   Personal members of the Angling Trust are responsible for

   registering their own fish with these Federations.