BW Stillwater Champs with Angling Trust

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- 04/04/2011 at 8:28 pm #45719
  TF_Cutnut
  Angling Trust & British Waterways
  Stillwater Championships 2011
  All competitors taking part in this event must be individual members of Angling Trust
  Competitors must be 16 years of age or over on the day of the qualifiers
  
  Entry Fee Â£20.00 per qualifier
  (payable in advance with completed entry form)
  Â£20.00 payment payable on the day at the qualifiers (Including optional pools)
  
  Plus your AT membership if not already joined.
  
  AT Membership rates
  
  It might be possible that you get the membership and not be able to fish the round you want if over subscribed….do you want or need the membership? To fish this event you clearly do.
- 04/04/2011 at 9:05 pm #136978
  TF_stav
  yet another competition i won’t be entering, not giving a penny in blackmail money same as fisho we’ll have to join to get a nra licence next, if that happens i’ll become a licence doger
- 04/04/2011 at 9:32 pm #136980
  mo-can do
  I’m with you Stav
  It’s joke… Join or else…
  Why should I have to contribute to someones
  Over inflated wages at the angling trust.
- 04/04/2011 at 9:43 pm #136981
  TF_James_H
  I find it hard to understand how we spend Â£0000s on over priced poles & seatboxes, yet Â£0.50p a week causes such a fuss.
  
  Anyhow, I’m assuming as it’s now being advertised on here it hasn’t sold out?
- 04/04/2011 at 9:59 pm #136984
  mo-can do
  50p a week for something I don’t want
  To contribute too, or be associated with…
  
  But are being forced too…
- 04/04/2011 at 10:10 pm #136985
  TF_NW Cut Angler
  @mo-can do wrote:
  
  50p a week for something I don’t want
  To contribute too, or be associated with…
  
  But are being forced too…
  
  Do you buy a rod licence?
  
  Do you buy multiple keep nets for venues which limit Xlbs per net?
- 04/04/2011 at 11:13 pm #136989
  TF_JohnC
  NW Cut Angler wrote:
  
  Do you buy a rod licence?
  
  Do you buy multiple keep nets for venues which limit Xlbs per net?
  
  Quote:
  
  Whats that got to do with anything?
  
  People don’t want to be forced to join an organisation that they feel isn’t even up to representing our sport.
  
  The whole things a farce, they won’t gain many members through this and i bet it only increased by a few hundred through Fish o mania.
- 05/04/2011 at 6:25 am #136992
  TF_NW Cut Angler
  Very simple John. I read people constantly complaining about being forced to do something, they are not BTW, they have a choice but I never see the same people complain about TRULY being forced to buy a rod licence, having to follow strict fishery guidelines etc etc and often the funding these anglers provide does not appear to benefit angling as much as it should. Despite all this we never see such complains. Odd IMO
  
  Perhaps The AT is just a convenient hobby horse for peoples angst and whining and people need to exercise perspective because in the world we live in the AT is so trivial it beggars belief.
  
  People like moaning and bitching I guess.
- 05/04/2011 at 7:24 am #136995
  TF_Cutnut
  @James_H wrote:
  
  I find it hard to understand how we spend Â£0000s on over priced poles & seatboxes, yet Â£0.50p a week causes such a fuss.
  
  Anyhow, I’m assuming as it’s now being advertised on here it hasn’t sold out?
  
  I’ve no idea if it’s sold out or not, I put the post up purely for info.
  
  Pointing out that if you want to enter you have to be in th AT as well, was purely so people understood the entry conditions, and to point out that you have no guarantee of getting a ticket, and no clear indication that you get a refund if you want one for the AT and or ticket.
  
  I have no axe to grind with the AT for or against.
  
  Yes it is a subs booster on the face of it, but I doubt as others have commented that it will really swell the membership.
  
  The whole licensing debate and Trust needed or not and where the money truly gets swallowed up is for yet another endless diatribe on another post.
- 05/04/2011 at 9:33 am #137003
  TF_dave smiff
  Look at all the moaners, you are very right James, thousands of pounds on poles, rods and bait each year. All to moan that Â£25 is too much for AT.
- 05/04/2011 at 11:44 am #137014
  TF_nick t
  Didnâ€™t the 2010 BW Stillwater Championship get cancelled because BW did not have the resources or staff to administer the event?
  
  If so and the AT are stepping in to take this on and are using their resources, I cannot see why anyone can object to having to be a member to fish.
  
  As a side note, AT membership means you can get membership of BWâ€™s Waterway Wandererâ€™s scheme which gives access to miles of canal fishing for Â£10 a year, a saving of 50%.
  
  Clubâ€™s can also join this scheme and book matches. This also entitles the registered club to a certain number of free matches (a Â£10 booking fee is required but no peg fees) on any fishery within the Waterway Wanderers Scheme.
- 05/04/2011 at 12:05 pm #137016
  TF_James_H
  The 2010 BW Champs was taken on by Ian off this site, and Geaoff Ringer I beleive, it went ahead and sold out 4 out of 5 qualifiers within days from memory. It couldn’t have been organised any better, and in many way’s it’s a shame BW/Angling Trust has now taken over the running of the event.
  
  Whether people choose to support the Angling Trust or not, for Â£20 a year/0.49p a week, you get some proper organised matches on some brilliant venues, with good money payouts. I personally think Â£20 is a small price to pay to be able to fish such matches, hence why I sent off cheques for all matches.
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