Last time I went up to the Ribble I spoke to a couple of anglers, one of them was complaining about the access to the swims,I explained that that was the way I liked em, keeps many others away because they could not be bothered to do a jungle run through the Himalayan Balsam, Foxgloves , and steep banks. I think some anglers have been spoiled by Commercials, and they think , possibly due to lack of experience that all fisheries should be maintained the way that commercials are. I will always enjoy river fishing as long as the river is , to some degree , left wild , the way nature intended it to be.