Another club closure

Originally posted by eric_c Originally posted by Old bloke Basically Kingsmead and Wraysbury Lake were out bid by carp fishing enterprises. I think, but am not sure, that they are commercial outfits rather than clubs. Odd to think that carp fishermen are prepared to spend more money than the over entitled toffs who go sailing. Fortunately Silver Wing (ex British Airways) is still on its Wraysbury lake and is flourishing. Fishing is big money. Places like Chew Valley, the sailors have been second fiddle to the anglers for donkeys' years. When you go fishing, the major cost of the sport is paying the fishery, not like sailing where most of the cost is your boat and other kit. Anglers turn up often 7 days a week, so there may be many more angling users than sailing users, spread over many more hours.

Originally posted by 423zero Anglers, they should have been drowned at birth, anti social knuckle daggers, never been anything but a damned nuisance, ninety percent of the fish they put back die, tackle kills loads of water birds, litter everywhere, not just on our lake, most clubs around here have Issues, I suppose someone is now going to say they know anglers who are brilliant     Edited to add Swimmers too.

Originally posted by 423zero Fly anglers are OK,.

I wonder if there’s a parallel thread on an angling forum about dinghy sailors going something like “dinghy sailors are OK when they’re not all sailing the same type of boat, but if you encounter a gaggle of them all sailing boring white boats on their own, they’re right ar**holes”?

The narrower and smaller the water the more the problems with Anglers.
Here on the Dart we have plenty of anglers after Bass using club land just outside the clubhouse on the high tides. Always polite and clean up well.
I can remember on the upper Thames that there was friction but only as they were fishing the opposite bank and we sailed through their lines.
Difficult not to really. I've had more agro as a canoeist than a dinghy sailor from Anglers.
At Oxford reservoir in the early 80s I decided to walk around the reservoir and ended up with a hook in my coat. I was at the bottom of the grass slope possibly 20m from the edge. Learnt my lesson.