Chris Plumb's Blog

Might be your last session at Padworth for a while Chris, the farm has been sold and TAA have lost most of the venue. We can still fish from the road bridge to the first stile...all of fifty yards.

Chris - I queried this with TAA - and below is part of the response I got from the Chairman on 23rd June...

 

"Rest assured that we have not lost the fishing at Padworth Park. There may be changes in the future but for the present it is "business as usual". My colleagues and I are working to secure our long term access to this fishery and if and when there is anything to report we will of course tell members. So, please continue fishing with our best wishes!"

Things may have moved on Chris. I was told last night by a bailiff at Rainsford and the website has been updated to the same effect. Negotiations are ongoing so there is still hope.

Oh BUGGER - one of my fav. summer waters.... bound to put pressure on Rainsford too....;(

My thoughts exactly and if the tree removal has caused the big perch to move from TAA territory on the canal the reasons to renew my ticket next year are diminishing rapidly.

 

the reasons to renew my ticket next year are diminishing rapidly.

Feel a little cheated for having renewed it this year - PP is one of the main reasons I join TAA...

Feel a little cheated for having renewed it this year - PP is one of the main reasons I join TAA...

 

Ditto from here as well.....and as you say, it will put more pressure on Rainsford, although the time restrictions on fishing there may mean the ipact isn't as severe.

 

I wonder also how many TAA members are also NAA card holders.....might push a few more onto their Kennet stretches?

I do too - I just found out last night. If they knew about this issue on June 23rd they have effectively sold us permits for a period the duration of which they were not able to guarantee they held fishing rights. Which is iffy practice in anyone's book. Might think about NAA now.

Shame - lovely stretch.

Matthew - the email I got on 23rd was to say it was business as usual - but I reckon they must have known something was up - I was told on the bank - on the 19th June that I shouldn't be there - hence my query to the club.....

Indeed Chris, Also it says on the website "until such time as the association can secure fishing with the new owner" so hopefully we'll get it back. Its strange though that we don't have access - you would have thought that we would continue to have access as the club must have had access when the books were printed. Anyway - live in hope rather than expectation! M