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    • 19/05/2013 at 10:28 am #55114

      TF_smeagal

        Having scoured a few local day ticket venues around Hampshire I am saddened that most still do not cater for disabled anglers 🙁
        Yes some have platforms but no level access!!
        10 minutes with a bucket on a tractor and £20 worth of tarmac could make so many swim stations easy and safer to use and get in and out of!!
        As an angler with very bad walking problems it has become increasingly hard to access even the best swims if the approach path is just scalpings or the swim is below the pathway with a grass bank.
        Grants are available from local councils and the EA so really it is only the lack of interest which stops disabled anglers having the same rights as abled bodied.
        Most are privately run but have no knowledge of the grants available to them so this is the reason for said post .
        Sorry for the rant but I am fed up having to sit and watch the wife fish because the access is either prohibitive or swim station inaccessible.
        Rant Over
        Tight Lines
        Smeag 🙂

      • 19/05/2013 at 11:47 am #166946

        TF_iansi01354

          I agree there are plenty of grants available and some fisheries do a great job of securing and using them up here.

          I think the BDAA are quite well represented round here and that helps, certainly Weston Pools, Old Hough and Fir Tree are just three having very good access and good platforms on a significant number, if not all their pegs, Old Hough in particular is exceptionally well appointed in my opinion and will be a great fishery once the surrounding lay mature a little more, pity it’s such a long way from you but proves the point.

        • 19/05/2013 at 12:45 pm #166947

          TF_smeagal

            @iansi01354 wrote:

            I agree there are plenty of grants available and some fisheries do a great job of securing and using them up here.

            I think the BDAA are quite well represented round here and that helps, certainly Weston Pools, Old Hough and Fir Tree are just three having very good access and good platforms on a significant number, if not all their pegs, Old Hough in particular is exceptionally well appointed in my opinion and will be a great fishery once the surrounding lay mature a little more, pity it’s such a long way from you but proves the point.

            I have been in contact with Terry and he is taking issue with one owner who he went to carry out a survey and nothing has been done in two years.
            But it is getting in contact with fisheries owners to point them in the right direction.
            You would think that affluent south would have the best disabled fishing in the country but it has not there is only one official disabled club in Hampshire as far as I know and they do not have a home water.
            I have contacted the EA and ask why fisheries bailiffs are not going and inspecting day ticket waters and in the last 5 years I have never had my licence checked on the bank side!!!

          • 19/05/2013 at 2:54 pm #166948

            TF_steve r

              Smeagal, if these day-ticket venues are club waters the grants would be available but if you’re talking commercial fisheries the the EA and councils will not offer anything in the way of grants.
              If you’re a member of the Angling Trust it may be worth making contact with the Hampshire County Angling Group [HCAG] as they may be able to offer some help/advice.

            • 19/05/2013 at 3:23 pm #166949

              TF_smeagal

                @steve r wrote:

                Smeagal, if these day-ticket venues are club waters the grants would be available but if you’re talking commercial fisheries the the EA and councils will not offer anything in the way of grants.
                If you’re a member of the Angling Trust it may be worth making contact with the Hampshire County Angling Group [HCAG] as they may be able to offer some help/advice.

                Yes I understand the difference between club waters and commercial properties but when I last corresponded with the Minister of State for the Environment she indicated that funds were available for both types under the regeneration of fisheries and inland water insinuative.
                My problem with club waters is that he funds go into the fisheries management funds and gets used for other means and the platforms never get built.
                I am not asking for all swims to be made disabled friendly just 1 in 3 😉

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