The bad one
Well-known member
I have read it for YOUR information, and Sam who’s out there on a regular basis thinks on your infrequent visits, you’re over-playing it on the Swale. I’ll take that from Sam because his are long-term experiences. Yours….infrequent at best!
Are there problems on other rivers? Yes! And if care to look you’ll see they have been discussed ad-nosium on here with much input from me, whilst you were off on another site moderating wasn’t it? You have brought nothing new to the party that hasn’t already been discussed before.
“Also yes, it would be about 15 years when the Black Bull stretch went to the syndicate (what a waste of a great stretch of river).....I fished that place for the previous 35 years...on and off at least. I also think you might find there is quite a lot of club controlled stretches on the Swale and some WILL allow you to fish day ticket but only on certain stretches...which I believe are stretches not considered to be very productive or favoured by the members of the clubs concerned.”
You did write that above didn’t you? Because Sam sure as didn’t? Clubs are there to look after their members interests, as I’ve told you, not the interests of those who won’t commit. Any concession they give to DTs is theirs and theirs alone. All the bleating in the world isn’t and won’t change that or take it away from them. If you want to fish the lengths you can’t on DT well join the club, it’s that simple.
And please don’t attribute words I didn’t write! I did not say “all” DT anglers cause Sh*te! I said the owners I’ve spoken to down the years have cited that as the reason they leased their lengths to a club(s). And the reasons for that to me are good…. cow swallows plastic bag, cow needs a vets operation 3k to remove it from it’s intestines. Sheep lacerates leg on tin can…..sheep needs a vet to visit to give it antibiotics 200 quid, fence broken down horses escape onto the road….time spent rounding them up at a minimum. At worst, a major accident horse and people killed. And so the list goes on!
Ah but are you in the right clubs? Because the two I’m in offers me around 200 river lengths from Hereford to Cumbria, all for 180 quid per year or put in DT prices £3.46p a week but neither offer DTs thankfully!
And again you’re writing word I did not write. Show me where I said you think it all down to the clubs?
Here’s a little antidote - a good friend of mine (yes I do have a few) who’s a salmon angler has been fishing a length of a river one of the clubs has recently take on, he's has had 15 salmon off it this year and talking to other salmon anglers as I do, they say it’s cr*p, rubbish, doesn’t hold any fish and don’t know why we took it on. Dare I say it tells me more about them and their skill set than it does about the fishing.
You may not think it right or fair that clubs in your view cherry picking lengths (a view you entitled to hold) but life isn’t fair, we live in a country that runs a market economy, not a “Socialist Utopia” and therefore clubs have to take cognisance of that and operate shrewdly within it. And the better clubs do by securing leases for their members. And within that market economy when they have those leases, it’s up to their members whether they fish them or not. To think that good well run clubs don’t monitor their gained assets as to the usage each one gets is laughable. I can assure you they do, as an unused asset is dead money for the club its members that can always be put to better use. Who knows the owner when dropped might even run it as a DT length….. But I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen if I were you!
