I have posted this thread after reading the assassination of Imago and myself on this forum's thread originally posted by Imago on River Competitions.
For those of you who are fortunate to live near to or to travel to the North East of England, I help run an Angling Club ( North West Durham Angling Association ) which has wild and stocked brown trout fishing on two upland reservoirs.
The website is
Home - NORTH WEST DURHAM ANGLING ASSOCIATION
The Association has no day tickets this season and none for the foreseeable future( as our fishing lodge was broken into last year and our secure (or so we thought) safe was ripped from the wall with day ticket money in it was sadly stolen,) so we are now existing with our Club Members only.
We have a full complement of Members and there is a short waiting list of anglers who want to and are awaiting waiting for interview to join our Association.
I won't tell you the cost of membership but if you fished once a week throughout the season, the equivalent day ticket price would be less than £3.
We are on an SSSI site, on one of the best grouse moors around, and the flora and fauna are amazing. The waters are leased from Northumbrian Water and the land is owned by a former World Championship Gold Medal Flyfishing Champion.
We have many competition anglers in our Association and a few of them are England International Flyfishers and qualified Angling Coaches. They don't measure their dicks and they don't wear badges. They enjoy flyfishing like all of our members and we are all one big happy family.