Currently you can only fish locally and as an individual but from the 29th of March this is subject to change. The Angling Trust put out this statement on the 21st of Feb.
Jamie Cook, Angling Trust CEO said:
“Whilst many anglers would have liked to have to seen angling fully opened up earlier we have to accept that the timing was always a matter for government acting on public health advice. Our job was to set out how our sport can be conducted safely and why we should be in the first tranche to resume without travel restrictions and with both competition and night fishing back in place. This all looks set to happen on March 29th and it’s good to see a widespread acceptance that healthy outdoor activities such as angling will be the first to return to some form of normality.”
This should allow a return to Match fishing which is good news for us as we have a match booked in April. I will publish a Match List ASAP once I have sorted all the details.
Sadly, this return is not early enough for us to have a last gasp river match before the season ends on the 14th of March.
Talking of the river we may have a poaching problem as a dog walker spotted two individuals acting suspiciously and passed this info on to the club, for this we are grateful. With Covid restrictions in force we have not been able to Bailiff the stretch as much as we would like. This will change.
Hopefully the easing of restrictions will allow us to meet more often and when the pubs finally reopen we will restart our monthly meetings.
“Tight Lines”