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Dave Gladwell writes...TIME TO REFLECT?Plenty of Summer Sun is the trigger to set off not just weed growth but the water-life insects in the chain too. Feed for small fish that provide the inspiration to capture a young heart and propel it towards a life-time angling addiction with shimmering memories of days that never dim. Today Coaching systems provide many children with some of their first steps. The tough real adventures often come from outings with a school friend or two. Without that supervision and instruction, in environments that are unspoilt by others intrusion, where long grass and butterflies move on a slight breeze. A place, some walk from the car, seemingly frozen in time, where dace dimple and a pugnacious pike or large spiny perch disturb the surface as it pursues fry or fingerling fish.
It is still the Membership of an Angling Club that can provide some of the best fishing. No, no, not the matches, but the amazing and little-used stretches of river they maintain and control. Places where damsel flies of pure viridian green hover, and their kin of striking electric blue, compete for places amongst the wild water mint and nettles. Gyrating in uneven flight their aeronautic acrobatics are individual flight patterns beside the bumbling bee and lethargic caterpillar. The brilliant Red Admiral beside the dowdy Skipper compete in the beauty stakes, but our eyes as anglers are taken by the orange fins of the roach with its inquisitive eye unblinkingly beholding us. Then if we are really fortunate it will be a view of our’s or somebody else’s, tinca the tench. Gold and green firm flanks with that tiny orange eye ready to raise our ambitions.
Unless we put ourselves out to preserve angling Clubs and all they have to offer we may see this age-old river-fishing facility continue to decline and fade away. The new Angling Trust is the one body that can continue to weld clubs together and represent anglers with Government recognition of their status. For the critics, try and forget it is fraught with the Angling Development complications of Club Mark statuses requiring masses of admin and forms to fill in. Of official Training standards and Criminal Bureau Checks on Coaches and those wishing to be Bailiffs, even Volunteers. Yes, that is all too much like everyday Work. It may well be that all you want is “just to go fishing” but we have to acknowledge the Law, its infringements and deliberate crimes that accompany it in today’s rather unpleasant at times, world. We all buy an Environment Agency Licence don’t we? The Angling Trust format has for many become an unnecessary evil, but is truly overwhelmed by the amount of good that comes in with the package. Without it there is no voice for Angling, however many letters we may write as individuals. I am a Life-member of the Angling Trust and about seven Angling Clubs, some affiliated, some not. I don’t altogether like many of the AJDB formalities either, and somewhat subscribe to the line of thought that they have hijacked angling administration, and comprise many non-anglers in a career orientated enterprise. Believe me though, the Organisation is crammed with sincere people who are trying to do their very best for angling and are highly worthy of you and your Club’s support.
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