FISH’O’MANIA

[Mongloid]

I didnt get any at all this year…….., but that is probably because even though I have “Supported” this event many times since it started, this year I didnt apply. Purely on the grounds that joining an organisation should be a matter of “Choice” not “Compliance”.

[TF_BacseyParticipant]

I must confess that i may not have joined if it was not for fisho,sorry but im just being honest and i know im not the only one,i think its called blackmail?

[tournament_pro]

ditto – they can shove it up right up their a*se

Its blatant exploitation as they knew people would still want the lure of fish-o £25K and hence pay ~£20

If the AT is falling down due to lack of members maybe they should have done a better job of promoting and selling it to anglers in the first place

[TF_mjk380]

ive bought two angling trust memberships in less than a year. one for national and one for fisho. yet havent had an email for fisho. i may ask for a refund on membership !~think ~think

[adam1Participant]

your AT membership lasts a full year, you didnt need to re join for fisho if you d already joined within the last year!

[TF_mjk380]

i know it lasts a full year but when applying for fisho tickets it said enter username or email (which i didnt have) so i just paid for another one purely for fishomania.

[Mongloid]

@adam1 wrote:

your AT membership lasts a full year, you didnt need to re join for fisho if you d already joined within the last year!

But if your AT membership runs out before you fish your qualifier/s you have to renew it.

[dazaster1Participant]

Yawn Yawn

[Mongloid]

@mjk380 wrote:

ive bought two angling trust memberships in less than a year. one for national and one for fisho. yet havent had an email for fisho. i may ask for a refund on membership !~think ~think

You will not get a refund!

Thats the beauty of it……. Some people will have joined the AT soley to apply for FISHO tickets & if they get NONE they dont get a refund = Money Lost

[TF_mjk380]

well i bloody deserve a refund considering ive paid for two.

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

You cant call yourself an angler unless you join the trust.

[TF_MarkT]

If you fish more than 50 qualifiers you become a vet? which means that your guaranteed 6 tickets?

Is that right? because what will happen is in a few years there be that many vets in it it will get harder for new angler to get tickets.

[TF_mjk380]

good point trav

[Mongloid]

@baitchef wrote:

You cant call yourself an angler unless you join the trust.

I am not saying that the AT is not worth joining or that it is rubbish or anything like that.

But No-one had to Pay anything in order to apply for tickets when they supported this competition in previous years

[TF_stav]

if you bothered to ask a solicitor he would have told you it’s actually illegal to force somebody to join just to get tickets that they might not get anyway. i did and didn’t

[TF_stav]

if you bothered to ask a solicitor he would have told you it’s actually illegal to force somebody to join just to get tickets that they might not get anyway. i did and didn’t join i’d rather say **** fishomania. i,ve applied the last 10 years but not this time

[Pola Bear]

blackmale …

[TF_herbie]

i would personally like to thank all those who did not join ~clap ~clap ~clap

this year for the first time ever i got tickets, and for both my choices. so once again thank you and please do the same again next year.

[TF_Smed]

@baitchef wrote:

You cant call yourself an angler unless you join the trust.

thats the biggest load of bollocks ive ever read on this forum, and ive read some!!

[TF_mjk380]

~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap ~clap

[gonkParticipant]

to right smed ive been fishing since i was knee high im now 39 i might not be a brilliant angler but im still an angler and not a member of the AT and proud of it i would rather give the £20 to my local tackle shop and keep the first port of call for many new ANGLERS in a job ~clap

[TF_Gary K]

Can’t agree more, I’ve applied for a at least 2 venues for the last 5-6 years but I am not paying £23 to give me the chance to enter for a ticket that I may well not get. If they had allowed to enter the draw and then join the trust if you were allocated a ticket, I could have lived with that, but with the current system in place, I agree its attemped blackmail.

[Anonymous]

@dazaster1 wrote:

Yawn Yawn

~clap ~clap ~clap

[Anonymous]

Luck of the draw fellas.
~naughty ~naughty ~naughty

[gonkParticipant]

why is it luck of the draw if you manage to get a ticket you pay the joining fee if you dont they should give you the option of joining or a refund its that simple

[TF_bagging machineParticipant]

@herbie wrote:

i would personally like to thank all those who did not join ~clap ~clap ~clap

this year for the first time ever i got tickets, and for both my choices. so once again thank you and please do the same again next year.

Hope you make good use of my tickets, reading between the lines, people seem to have got more tickets than usual and thats because less people have applied. Despite it still being sold out. Herbie no pressure but don’t fcuk it up.

[TF_daveroberts]

The great thing about it is you can vote with your feet and judging by the fact that I didn’t get anywhere near the amount of tickets I wanted it seems the majority walked with me.

~clap ~clap ~clap

[Anonymous]

herbie, its going to cost you best part of £25,000 in coaching fee,s to get you up to the level where you might qualify if you draw a flier! lol

[TF_MarkT]

@bagging machine wrote:

Hope you make good use of my tickets, reading between the lines, people seem to have got more tickets than usual and thats because less people have applied. Despite it still being sold out. Herbie no pressure but don’t fcuk it up.

People haven’t got more tickets this year because less have applied, theres still the same amount of tickets as last year, it’s just the luck of the draw.

[TF_mosellajase1]

and this year went for 5 got 0 first year i have got 0 wonder why i bother ~sick ~sick ~sick

[TF_Empty Peg]

I cannot understand why people pay £20 on the chance they will get a ticket it would really P*ss me off to see that some get 8/10 if i had none. Why does it have to be a lottery why not all get a ticket and if there are to many entrants then that then becomes the lottery if you dont get 1 at least everyone else will only have 1

[lewis]

I only applied for two, and needless to say I didn’t get either.

Spend my £20 wisely AT. HMMMM should be enough to pay for a jug of orange juice at the next corporate meet.

[Sploogie]

So the Angling Trust has managed to bring in alot of money due to this mandatory joining of there organisation, What I want to know, as I expect alot of others do is
HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE THEY TAKEN IN TOTAL ON MEMBERSHIP FEE’S ?
HOW ARE THEY GOING TO SPEND THIS TO SUPPORT ANGLERS ?

come on then AT , I think you need to stand up and comment.

Just for the record I did join and got 3 tickets.

[TF_Jadstar70]

I must be really wierd then……..~think ~think ~think

I joined the AT and DIDN’T apply for Fisho…..

[Mongloid]

mosellajase1, lewis, and anyone else that didnt get any tickets…. Were you already members of the AT or did you join in order to apply for Fisho tickets.

If you joined just for the tickets, how do you feel now ?

[lewis]

I actually feel a bit of a knobber now, as I just read my emails and I am in at Barford lol. I never have been patient.

I only joined to apply for Fisho. I still think it’s wrong that we’re forced to join to enter certain matches. Would much rather the license fee went up, at least then I’d feel that the AT would have enough money to have a chance of being a powerful body. Even with 25,000 members that’s only 500k of revenue. There’s plenty of individuals (not me I hasten to add) that earn that themselves in a year…

[TF_MarkT]

According to the angling times there was 3000 people apply for tickets to fisho so they didn’t gain that many members, don’t forget aswell some of them might have already been members so in the end it can’t have been that many.

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