Cakey
Well-known member
can I have the name of the fishery so I can get in touch and get their response please .........................
Im a great believer in two sides to a story
I should have thought that it was common knowledge that any place of business that does not prepare food on the premises has no right to prevent members of the public bringing their own food to eat there. That counts for cinemas, pubs and other similar businesses without food preparation facilities. Those who have such facilities are quite rightly defended by health and safety laws.
But- just you try getting a policeman to come and enforce your right to eat your own food in a cinema!
I really hate the expression "do-gooder". It conjures up pictures of right-wing thugs and retired colonels. Graham, you arent a retired colonel are you? Lance corporal? What about that idiot on Question Time who always bangs on about the mafia in the health & safety executive? He has never done a hand's turn in his life.!!
Health and safety laws are there mainly for the defence of workers at work. I used to work in the construction industry when the statistics said that every worker lived with the odds of 50 -1 ON having a serious accident at work. I worked on three sites where someone was killed. Nowadays, despite the rigour of H&S laws in construction, there are still 50-odd people killed every year, about a fifth of what it was in the early 70s - just when the Health & Safety Executive came into being! A labour government of course!
Too many posters on FM get hot under the collar and reduce threads to slanging matches. Both sides in this debate have resorted to irrelevant personal attacks. Both sides have positive points to make and useful negative points as well.
To return to the thread, I use A1 pits frequently. They have about 3 miles of roads, which might cost up to a a couple of £million to make comfortable to drive on. The toilets - unisex - are clean enough to be acceptable without being palatial.
The fishing rules on the site are very relaxed and the place is safe from night time marauders because they lock the gates. The land itself is left to itself, with the odd mowing done occasionally. I really like it the way it is. The bailiffs are friendly, knowledgeable and unassuming. What more would I want? I night fish there whenever I can.
It's a bit rough in some ways - but I LIKE roughing it!
Will there be any [civilised] comments on this post? I bet there arent, despite the fact that I have criticised every one of you. Dont worry, I'm used to being ignored.
Average price of pellets (usually carp pellets) at fisheries I have fished is around £2.25 to £2.50 per kilo, so that makes the price of the pellets that Upnorth uses (5 times more remember) at around £12.50 per kilo.
Are we really expected to believe rubbish like that? Nah! not me anyway.
Signed
Caring fisherman
Well I must say it's good to be back
What a load of tosh this thread is! A fishery CAN enforce the pellet rule, but it cannot enforce a total "Buy only our bait" rule. Any person visiting a fishery should always check the fishery rules, prior to fishing, and then they will be able to see what other baits are allowed, example maggots ir sweetcorn, so they can take their own bait to the fishery, hence the fishery does not have the monopoly on bait!
Well I must say it's good to be back
why is this thread still going?
if you don't like the way the fishery is run, don't fish there.
with regards pellets specifically, i fail to believe that any fishery has a rule that only allows you to feed their pellets, with no other free offerings allowed of any sort, whatsoever. bear in mind, for you to even have a point, the only baits going in their fishery would be their pellets, and single hookbaits. no maggots, no bread, no meat, no groundbait, no sweetcorn, etc etc.
as cakey has said, name the place that got you so fired up, upnorth. i would be curious to see their rules that are inhibiting your freedom of choice so much.