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Exclusive Wye Syndicate

I cant help but feel sorry for some of the local Glamorgan AC fellas who know and love this stretch , previously paying £65 for the club ticket and not being able to afford the increase (no matter how good value for money some may feel the syndicate is).
Lets hope GAC survive this "major upset"

Okay so times are a changing and guess it makes commercial sense as
I am to understand this will be to the long term benefit of the stretch !
I have been fishing Biblins for 7 years or more and desperatly hope to continue to do so.
So I am willing to pay the dosh.

I have never been in a syndicate before and wondered what difference it will make to me when I go to the river bank should I get a place ?
 
Guess it is just market forces Mark. Don't know the numbers in GAC but my local club put up subs by £3 for a new stretch which members were more than happy to pay.
I'm actually dropping out of a syndicate this year as the distance and time just not worth the cost.
 
Mark,

It's always a shame when a club has to relinquish control of a popular water but in my experience syndicates do offer a better experience for the specialist angler. Baillifing has always been suspect on the Biblins, I only ever met one bailiff in several years fishing down there and I'm sure Adam and his team will change this as the owner will always want to look after his interests so it pays to have a dedicated group of anglers who are willing to put the work in to make the fishery a better place to be.

I'm not in the syndicate and haevn't applied but I can't help feeling the Biblins will be a better place for this change.
 
Paul Thompson said:
I'm not in the syndicate and haevn't applied but I can't help feeling the Biblins will be a better place for this change.
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Ditto here Paul, I have got more fishing available than I can manage as it is. I dropped the paas ticket a couple of years ago because I was not using the waters, I also dropped another couple of club tickets so I'm down to just two now, but I have kept my syndicate water on the lower Severn. The security of a locked gate and parking on the bank, plus the camaraderie of a syndicate where all are equal shareholders and known to each other is very nice. We also have the benefit of not being a public right of way so don't get pestered by non anglers. Another thing is we don't get a scrap of litter, other than what the floods leave behind, not even a fag end, I've never seen that before, not even on the best kept club waters.
 
Adrian,

Ditto above, I belong to the same syndicate and it is the members themselves who are its strength. There is literally no dissent among the members as they put the fish and the environment before any personal goals they may have set themselves regarding the fishing. As such we have no need for rules at all other than those that relate to access and land management as agreed with our landlord. Such is the quality of the overall fishing experience that I find it has affected the rest of my angling and I find myself much less tolerant of non like minded anglers on club waters, and prefer to either fish on the syndicate water or not fish at all. Is this the way all fishing will go and if so will that be a bad thing?

There is one other factor which should be accounted for, and that is the two selfless persons who set up our syndicate and do most of the legwork. They don't make a fuss and they ask for nothing in return, they just get on with it. As such they have great experience of what makes a successful syndicate tick and I could offer no better advice to Adam than to get in touch with them and learn from their experience. Much as I would like to publicly name them I will not do so as they are bound to be known to others on here who who may have been involved in a well known single species group. Those others may have a different opinion of them and that is their prerogative, no matter how misguided. So, Adam, if you would like more information just drop me a PM.
 
Daniel Potter said:
Hi all,

Just got confirmation that my application to the syndicate has been successful. Anyone else on here had theirs ?

Perhaps we should arrange some kind of new syndicate fish in for the coming season

Regards

Dan
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If it works like any other syndicate I've been a part of you will have your own forum to discuss this sort of thing.
 
I was not accepted sniff,sniff.
So I now look out of my bedroom window at the river opposite The Saracens Head but cannot fish it.
Guess applying next day was not quick enough as it was first come, fist served,,,,,,,,,,?
 
Mark Thompson said:
I was not accepted sniff,sniff.
So I now look out of my bedroom window at the river opposite The Saracens Head but cannot fish it.
Guess applying next day was not quick enough as it was first come, fist served,,,,,,,,,,?
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Well that's the first one......get your helmet on Adam, plenty more where this came from!
 
Letters were posted out first class on Thursday. These were sent to all those who came back to us with an address.

Alex Gowney, you didn't respond to the group email sent out on the 29th March requesting your address if you were happy to proceed with membership. I've just checked the sent mail and you were on that mailing list. As we didn't hear from you, you won't have heard anything more from us.

Adam
 
Mark Thompson said:
I was not accepted sniff,sniff.
So I now look out of my bedroom window at the river opposite The Saracens Head but cannot fish it.
Guess applying next day was not quick enough as it was first come, fist served,,,,,,,,,,?
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Mark your address is not for Symonds Yat? Also the river in front of the Saracens Head is not part of the syndicate stretch anyway (you're about 500 meters or more above our upper limit there) so perhaps you could still join that club if that's where you wanted to fish?
 
Adam
Ask Graham about my address,,Wye Rapids Cottages and he may recall an e mail I sent to him expressing my keen interest "very early"in the proceedings !!

I am aware where the Biblins starts etc etc thank you.
 
Mark Thompson said:
Adam
Ask Graham about my address,,Wye Rapids Cottages and he may recall an e mail I sent to him expressing my keen interest "very early"in the proceedings !!

I am aware where the Biblins starts etc etc thank you.
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Yes, but the letter for the syndicate was sent to Essex, which you've received. You say your bedroom window is opposite the Saracens and that you can't fish here now even though you know where the Seven Sisters (Biblins) starts, as I said the river in front of the Saracens Head is not part of the syndicate stretch anyway so perhaps you could still join that club if that's where you wanted to fish?

You did express your keen interest, as did many others, thank you, but I'm afraid it came well down the list.
 
Adam
I think you know what I mean when I say "fish the river I am looking at".
You seem a bit prickly, it is I (and a good number of others) that have reason to feel irritated for want of a better word !

Any idea how far down the waiting list I am mate ?
 
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