Dan Whitelock
Senior Member
Just been skimming through the Facebook page of a club I was a member of last season, only a small club with a couple of miles of river but some fantastic fishing. One of the members enquired if swims can be booked in advance for June 16th and the head bailiff says this is fine!
I'm not sure how I feel about this, it's a very carp orientated club so no doubt the bivvy brigade and those who are ''in'' will be out in force on the 15th anyway, but if I rocked up on the bank at dawn on the 16th, full of anticipation and excitement for the new season only to find my chosen swim taped off with a 'reserved' sign hanging off it then I'd be somewhat unhappy.
I don't know if the club are charging a fee in order to reserve swims or how they're going about it, the whole thing stinks a bit. What happened to simply going somewhere else if somebody beat you to a particular swim?
I wasn't intending on fishing this stretch anyway on the 16th, I just wondered what other people's thoughts are on this? It's put me off renewing my ticket for this club now despite the lovely weirpool and backwater they have..... I think I'll just go elsewhere.
I'm not sure how I feel about this, it's a very carp orientated club so no doubt the bivvy brigade and those who are ''in'' will be out in force on the 15th anyway, but if I rocked up on the bank at dawn on the 16th, full of anticipation and excitement for the new season only to find my chosen swim taped off with a 'reserved' sign hanging off it then I'd be somewhat unhappy.
I don't know if the club are charging a fee in order to reserve swims or how they're going about it, the whole thing stinks a bit. What happened to simply going somewhere else if somebody beat you to a particular swim?
I wasn't intending on fishing this stretch anyway on the 16th, I just wondered what other people's thoughts are on this? It's put me off renewing my ticket for this club now despite the lovely weirpool and backwater they have..... I think I'll just go elsewhere.