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The point is if you travel 2 miles or 20 miles to fish the risk is the same and the main thing is that when you get there you follow the covid guidelines, commonsense really.
Except Phil, IMO, you cannot travel 20 miles to fish - that in no definition would be deemed local and would undermine the work of the AT...looking at today's press it seems even stricter regs may be on the way.
 
What difference does it make ? you get in the car on your own, travel 1 mile or 100 mile, get out, fish for a while, get back in the car and go home. Why is distance such an issue ?

I agree Dereck, but the sting in the tail is what do the Constabulary think, for myself, although I am staying well within the
“ agreed “ boundaries , should I stray over and some over zealous Cop decide I was having a ticket, I would contest it, and , I believe win, there is atm no enforcible legislation passed by statute that can be argued .
The Govt advice is wooly and flawed in that it has not yet as far as I know been tested , it is only advice despite anything Pretty Piti says .

David
 
About the only place i would call local to me is a couple of lakes that are on the club ticket about 4 miles away.. guess where they are situated.... yep in a golf course which is shut... typical of my luck...
 
What difference does it make ? you get in the car on your own, travel 1 mile or 100 mile, get out, fish for a while, get back in the car and go home. Why is distance such an issue ?
Logically there is no issue with that Derek it makes no difference and yes the “guidance, advice, local thing is all just...... well messy if you ask me with no real clear cut numerical mileage stamp put on things , however....... that aside we’ve gotta be ultra careful. Yes they might not be able to fine us by law but if too many people start thinking about the 2 girls in Derbyshire and think sod it im going up the Trent this weekend, that could shove angling back in the lockdown dog house.

staying in your village, town, part of the city is the advice.... what a load of bullshit that is (excuse my language) but that has not been well thought out. A village can be a few hundred yards long. In this case I simply ain’t going anywhere to fish and that’s all fine but a little unfair when you think about the guy that lives in Middlesbrough?????? Christ he’s doing alright, bloody enormous town. He’s got loads of miles to go at and spread his C19 about and then we come to the “part of the city” which part? The part between costa coffee and pound land?? What about if you live in a city like Ely or Ripon?? Bit unfair to start splitting them down into parts.
guy that lives In london might one day decide that the part of the city he’s restricting himself to is the part inside the M25 🤦‍♂️.
point being as petty and stupid as that all sounds it’s all valid petty stupid points with the piss poor guidance they’ve given people. They should of just announced 10 mile circle around your home that’s your exercise limit and carry some ID to prove your address if needed.
boom!!!! job done
 
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What difference does it make ? you get in the car on your own, travel 1 mile or 100 mile, get out, fish for a while, get back in the car and go home. Why is distance such an issue ?
I think it’s more a case of unnecessary travel. If you have an accident and end up in hospital then you’re taking up nhs time. Personally I think these fines are more a money making scheme than anything else
 
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, they've let us go fishing! I think the issue is avoiding everyone piling over to snowdon etc like last time. When the snow came just after Xmas Wales were turning away hundreds from London trying to get to the brecons. A radius is fine 5/10 miles whatever.
Mind you easy for me to say living 10 mins from the Severn. 😊
 
I contacted the chairman of my most local club and gave him my postcode - he said the distance was reasonable. The car park is 1.3 miles away (3 minutes drive because there are no footpaths). I can then trudge and fish miles up and down river. I did this yesterday but the fish were definitely in lock down.

It is bewildering to see people touching gates with their bare hands and not sanitising afterwards.

Apparently, most accidents happen at home and most car accidents happen within a mile from home.
 
I understand people’s desire for clarification, and I’m cautious that some of what I’m going to say, my questions are rhetorical reallymay enable some more extreme opinions but...

If I said your local, shop, pub etc we’d all have pretty good comprehension of what that means. Why then in this instance is it such a difficult concept. Personally I think it’s because people who wish to either lock the world up or completely flout it are picking at it, leaving the rest of us confused.

Let’s say we did go ahead and say 10 miles. How is that implemented? Do we produce ID to the policeman when he asks? Where’s he coming from, there aren’t many policemen. Do they fill the courts with people arguing it was 9.9 miles not 10.1.

I’m starting to think those people women in Derbyshire was a stunt, I don’t know by who or for what but it’s a lovely glossy well taken photo, by who. It was repealed ASAP followed by the police statement. Given the actions by that force in March/April I think they took the bait...

Let’s say we do go the route done are asking for, similar to those implemented in parts of Europe. Would we be happy if you couldn’t go to Aldi and had to shop in Waitrose because it’s closer? If we compare the death rates we capitata (particularly before this strain) with places like France, Spain, Italy is the death rate significantly better as to prove that this model works or actually to be properly effective would far harsher restrictions be required to make a difference in the way they have in say SK.

When all is said and done I’m not sure many of us would want stricter more concrete rules, I’m also not sure if they would achieve any measurable positive correlation unless we put in place such strict terms it would be unacceptable.
 
This article may help those still confused. Seems pretty straightforward to me, stay as local as possible. If you push the boundaries, get caught and you're all over the national press you'll be doing your fellow anglers a great disservice.

 
It’s 12 miles for me which takes about 24 minutes which I would class as local. Considering the ridiculous miles Iv been having to do for non essential work it’s definitely local
 
Stretching a point there, Jon. According to Google, I can get from my house to Ringwood in 17 minutes but I would not call that local to me, just outside Southampton. It is fairly clear from the Government COVID regulations that local is meant to mean within a short distance from your home, as confirmed by Martin Salter in the AT blog article. We really do all need to be sensible and fish where we can, within the rules, rather than where we’d like to, if we are to help in ridding this country of this dreadful disease.


Dave
 
From March to June I didn’t leave the house other than to the shop and didn’t see a soul. From June I fished on my own. Finally was back at work in October for 4 weeks then it was back at home til the start of this month. So in 10 months Iv had 6 weeks where Iv spent time with lad I work with and not socialised with any one else. Without fishing I’d of lost my mind by now.
 
Clear as mud distance wise , i,ve not been down the trent for a few months now ,50 mile journey, sticking to sea fishing in the Humber about 1.5 miles down the road and classed as in the same village. Have noticed less anglers from all over the country visiting to plunder the mainly social media cod stocks at the moment . We can still fish but for s lot of folks its quite a hard exercise to do so,and those that live local are very fortunate indeed .
 
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and here lies the obvious problem...... 2 completely different views of what is and isn’t “local” niether one of them is wrong but both give different advice! I’m with Jon. 12 miles is nothing to me. Pretty much on my doorstep but considering my job puts 50,000 miles a year on my car an hours drive is a local blast up the road to someone like me.
However.......to some people an hours drive is check the car levels, pack some supplies and make sure the spare tyre is good....... oh has every one being for a wee and should we fill her right up because it’s a long way!

should of been done with a clear mileage limit from the start. That way opinions on local don’t matter. Size of your village, town or city doesn’t matter. 1 rule for and all, goose and gander n all that.
 
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