I think Lee is probably aware of who is Chair of the ATr David, its the rest of the question that needs answering, and fast if the Trust wants to retain those SA's and Groups that are still members.
The ATr does have the Specialist Angling Freshwater Group committee (SAFG) feeding up to the Freshwater Committee at Board level, but there seems to be a major blockage with anything coming out of it and into the wider world of the ATr.
The way I see it, I beleive that someone at the top of the ATr is anti SA (although the SAA cash was readily taken I seem to remember)
If that is not the case Mr Lloyd, why has the ATr web site or any of it's newsletters never ever carried a single word about specimen/specialist angling, or anything about the SA Groups that enabled to ATr to come about?
I have several e-mails from Mark Lloyd saying there would be SA content but it needed that content to enable it to happen (seems there is no one at Board level with enough 'uptop' to think laterally, and these people are The Voice of Angling?) However accepting that, I beleive the entire SAA site content was given to th ATr on a CD by Dave Lumb (PAC) at the February 2010 SAFG meeting. Even after being given what had been asked for there is still no mention or recognition of SA within the ATr. If there had been a problem putting the SA content up on the ATr site all they deeded to do was to ask, it was Dave who wrote the SAA web site.
Just try a search in the ATr's web site search tool for 'specialist angling' and see what comes up, a big fat '000'
Oh I tell a lie, there has recently been a specimen sea fish award added :confused:
At least the old SAA site is still 'live' But ssshhush, don't tell anyone or that will disappear, just like SA within the ATr did
