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Paulscatt · 11th January 2007, 09:13 PM

I agree with Roysy that we need boats for good fishing. Without them clouding the water & being maintained for navigation canals can weed/silt up & go gin clear resulting in poor sport.

With regard to payment we anglers often pay twice to fish a stretch of canal. IE the rod licence which every person needs to have when fishing with rod & line in the UK & either a yearly club membership or a ''dayticket''. There are very few stretches of canal for which the fishing rights are not controlled by a club. The club pays the rent & we individual anglers pay a membership fee on average £30 - £60 for that clubs stretch of canal. If I want to fish another canal i have to pay again etc etc.

Therefore BW takes a considerable amount of revenue from angling clubs nationally which i should imagine is used by BW to maintain the canal network. How much of this revenue is used for fishery work i wonder?

My local canal the Bridgewater Canal in Cheshire is different in that it is owned by the Manchester Ship Canal company & virtually all the fishing is controlled by Warrington AA. Here fishing from boats is not allowed & day tickets are not available. Fishing from the non towpath side of the canal is also forbidden. I was a baliff for WAA for many years & had lots of arguements with boaters fishing from their boats often on the non towpath side of the canal particulary in marinas without WAA membership. A lot of boaters seem to think that a rod licence gave them the right to fish anywere on any canal. Simply not true and worth bearing in mind that if u boated for a week say, from Warrington to Birmingham & wanted to fish every night next to your moored boat. To be a ''legal'' angler it would cost you probably several hundred pounds in club books or day tickets.

11th January 2007, 09:13 PM	#22 (permalink)
Paulscatt Talk Angling Moderator Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Prescot Posts: 284 Blog Entries: 1	Canals need boaters I agree with Roysy that we need boats for good fishing. Without them clouding the water & being maintained for navigation canals can weed/silt up & go gin clear resulting in poor sport. With regard to payment we anglers often pay twice to fish a stretch of canal. IE the rod licence which every person needs to have when fishing with rod & line in the UK & either a yearly club membership or a ''dayticket''. There are very few stretches of canal for which the fishing rights are not controlled by a club. The club pays the rent & we individual anglers pay a membership fee on average £30 - £60 for that clubs stretch of canal. If I want to fish another canal i have to pay again etc etc. Therefore BW takes a considerable amount of revenue from angling clubs nationally which i should imagine is used by BW to maintain the canal network. How much of this revenue is used for fishery work i wonder? My local canal the Bridgewater Canal in Cheshire is different in that it is owned by the Manchester Ship Canal company & virtually all the fishing is controlled by Warrington AA. Here fishing from boats is not allowed & day tickets are not available. Fishing from the non towpath side of the canal is also forbidden. I was a baliff for WAA for many years & had lots of arguements with boaters fishing from their boats often on the non towpath side of the canal particulary in marinas without WAA membership. A lot of boaters seem to think that a rod licence gave them the right to fish anywere on any canal. Simply not true and worth bearing in mind that if u boated for a week say, from Warrington to Birmingham & wanted to fish every night next to your moored boat. To be a ''legal'' angler it would cost you probably several hundred pounds in club books or day tickets.