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Collingham aa

Richard Isaacs said:
It’s not about when you need to go John it’s what you do with it. I personally don’t want to be sitting in a field that’s littered with human waste. Buried, hung from trees or squeezed into a beer can it doesn’t matter because it shouldn’t be there full stop.
There are solutions now with portable toilets containing waste bags a nd absorbing chemical crystals. These things can be dealt with in a proper manner and our waste can be disposed of properly.
Putting portaloos in has a huge significant cost because someone is employed to empty the septic tank daily. Why should the club be responsible to sort that?
I think the tree shake will have a huge effect on that place in a positive sense.
Collingham Members will actually appreciate the fact that the club is doing something for their benefit. If day ticket holders don’t like it then they can fish elsewhere can’t they. My booking this year is also canceled and that’s fine I’ll live with it.
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The composting toilets don't need emptying. But someone has to clean them on a daily basis and that cost would be prohibitive for most clubs. And, as has been said; many will not leave their pegs to go to the toilet.

Perhaps if Korum marketed portaloos everybody would want one 😂
 
Clive Kenyon said:
The composting toilets don't need emptying. But someone has to clean them on a daily basis and that cost would be prohibitive for most clubs. And, as has been said; many will not leave their pegs to go to the toilet.

Perhaps if Korum marketed portaloos everybody would want one 😂
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Ridge monkey do one. It’s £40.
Comes with everything to just …… let it go!
 
I spent many years carp fishing lakes in Europe with zero facilities and used a bait bucket with a heavy duty bin liner these were then put in a disposable nappy bag and zipped tied
but these days you have superb fold flat toilets that take up little room like the excellent Bivvy Loo https://www.carplife.uk.com/product-page/bivvy-loo
so there is no excuse
 
Richard Isaacs said:
It’s not about when you need to go John it’s what you do with it. I personally don’t want to be sitting in a field that’s littered with human waste. Buried, hung from trees or squeezed into a beer can it doesn’t matter because it shouldn’t be there full stop.
There are solutions now with portable toilets containing waste bags and absorbing chemical crystals. These things can be dealt with in a proper manner and our waste can be disposed of properly.
Putting portaloos in has a huge significant cost because someone is employed to empty the septic tank daily. Why should the club be responsible to sort that?
I think the tree shake will have a huge effect on that place in a positive sense.
Collingham Members will actually appreciate the fact that the club is doing something for their benefit. If day ticket holders don’t like it then they can fish elsewhere can’t they. My booking this year is also canceled and that’s fine I’ll live with it.
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Richard,
I have worked in waste management since 1993 and am well aware of what can be done. I have always taken a bucket myself. It really is just a few idiots that you will get anywhere. The average cost of hiring 2 standard portaloos is £100 for a minimum 2 week period. It would hardly break the club's bank and if cost was an issue put the price of the tickets up to compensate.....
It's a pity the club don't get the divers in once a year to remove some of the snags in the weir which would be much appreciated by the paying anglers and more so the poor fish.....
I have wrote to the club in the past asking this....
Its all about pennies. ......
 
Are they going to enforce camper vans in the car park then? As I can see that being the next thing. Sleeping and having parties in there waiting for the fishing at 1st light
 
Never been inclined to fish it either and I live in the next village! Worry now is that A1 pits will now become the go to 'party' place and spoil the NDPF stretch which is on the opposite bank :(
 
And there was me thinking these changes had been driven by fish welfare...but reading this thread it seems its due to anglers crapping on the bank.

Bleak on every level.
 
i’ve fished it about 6 times like richard said it’s not to be taken seriously … it became an annual social thing with friends and i have to say regarding the drugs and drinking all the times i have fished it i have never witnessed anything like that.
i think you have to go back before the booking system for all that carry on .. but i suppose mud sticks ….. sure from peg 10 onwards it gets gets very busy and there are some idiots that will have fire or shine bright torches on the river to cast out …. the worst i’ve seen is EE families with a big tent having a barbecue and a couple of beers but seeing as it’s a long way from the weir ( the first 10 pegs are really stretched out) it’s never bothered me as i know i’m there for 24 hrs then i go back to “normal “ fishing
like someone else said the big problem with the weir is the snags which have got worse year on year .. they really do need to sort that out from a fish welfare point of view… last year we didn’t fish pegs 3 and 4 because of snags
 
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Chris Guy said:
Not my type of fishing, mad rush for prime pegs, hammered and a bit of a circus if you ask me.
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The booking system on the weir itself improved things a lot down that end and stopped all the bivvy ques but as for the members stretch it self I’d imagine it can still be a bit like that from time to time.
 
I can't imagine any stretch of club water that permits night fishing can get away with not having toilet facilities.
Astounded this has gone on so long...of course the army way of using a shovel would have been useful advice, the amount of money spent on gear and yet a cheap shovel is just too much.
Shameful blight on the Angling community.
 
A well known local club to me in the Colne valley had a rule you had to have a sealable bucket for toilet waste if you night fished
also it was an automatic life ban for anyone having a dump in the bushes as only animal`s crap in the bushes

it was well bailiffed and always immaculate ( I was one on the bailiffs) I think one of the biggest problems is excess booze ! you cant boot someone off if they cant drive because they are drunk
there should be rules about the amount of booze its fishing not a pissup ?
 
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