Just joined, just watching tightlines, looks as if they are going to be doing some good work.

£20. We should all join to help ensure the future of our sport ......... the RSPB have 1 million members! the AT is only at 30,000!!!! We need this type of organisation.

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Carl

http://www.wandlepiscators.net/
http://teiseangling.co.uk/index.htm

TOMORROW THE TRENT COULD BE YOUR FISHERY! When are YOU going to JOIN THE ANGLING TRUST?

Out of interest where did you get the 30,000 figure from?

Thats what the new Chief Exec said they had!

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Carl

http://www.wandlepiscators.net/
http://teiseangling.co.uk/index.htm

TOMORROW THE TRENT COULD BE YOUR FISHERY! When are YOU going to JOIN THE ANGLING TRUST?

Unfortunately the anglers living in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are disenfranchised from Angling Trust for a combination of reasons including a) the AT being funded by Sport England which requires their money to be spent only in England, and b) the fact that the Welsh and Scottish national governments (and may be the Northern Irish) only want to talk to their national angling representative bodies and not an all embracing truly "national" one.

Mark Lloyd and his colleagues tried to get the Welsh organisations on board but they were asked to back off to allow the totally ineffective Federation of Welsh Anglers to be the representative body for Wales. In retrospect, if they were trying to get the Welsh organisations for game, coarse and sea angling on board as well as the English, they would still be talking in 10 years and nothing would have happened.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

I tried to ask difficult questions to get the most out of people at the launch (I was the reporter for Tight Lines).

What do people think about the Salmon and Trout Association staying outside to preserve their charitable status?

fordy,

hi ive been a member of the ACA for a few years now ,angling has been screaming out for this for years however the apethetic angling fraternity have always let things down theres to many who want to sit on there ass and let everyone else do the hard work ,i just hope when this has the membership i think it will get (at least500,000) that "trout and salmon" dont want to jump on the band wagon ,i know they say they dont want to lose there charitable trust they've just recieved ,but if things go as i hope they do for the trust we will be the winners ,if they dont get the membership anglers as a whole will of shot themselves in the foot in the present and future climes we live in!!
good questions to the trout/salmon on tight lines by the way !!


bruce.

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WHEN YOU LEAVE THE RIVER, TAKE NOTHING, AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINT'S!!!

THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

I hope you are right Bruce. I was impressed with the way it all went and I think we all know if Mark Lloyd gets his way it will be a great boon to us all.

I'm also a big Martin Salter fan (I know he's not everyone's cup of tea - but then he is a politician!!)

mark is a very clever man ,he wouldnt of put the ACA in there if he didnt think it was for the good of angling as a whole,i still find it unbelievable the amount of membership was so low for the ACA as it was think the last time i looked it was under 10,000 which is a pathetic statement from the anglers in this country ,if your or day ticket waters are polluted i know who i want on my side,for some reason people cant seem to grip the advantages of becoming a single member ,as i pointed out on a forum i run if you fish a day ticket water and pollution strikes and your a member they will act on your behalf for that water/club who own it !!!

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WHEN YOU LEAVE THE RIVER, TAKE NOTHING, AND LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINT'S!!!

THA CAN TELL A YORKSHIREMAN ,BUT THA CAN'T TELL HIM MUCH !!

One thing has baffled me since I came back to angling (about 10 years ago).

Everything is so badly 'joined up' . You can't go to any fishery and wet a line legally without having bought a rod licence - but you can't buy a rod licence on site in most places. You also can't buy a rod licence in a fishing tackle shop. It seems insanity.

The Angling Trust needs to work tremendously hard on it's PR - and get itself shown in EVERY tackle shop and at EVERY fishery to be a success. We as anglers need to push hard for that too.

My club were so impressed that we dropped our membership of the S&TA as we couldn't see any benefit from it.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary