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Ticket price increase.

Mark Swaby said:
As a Fishing club committee member we are dammed if we do and dammed if we don't. Criticised by members who do not want to get involved, help at work parties or sit on the side lines and slag the club off. Simon, maybe you should get involved more so you can understand the issues. Thousands of us work for free for the benefit of a club and its members. Yes 25% is a big increase but do you want your club having to drop Venues if they only put the price up by a couple of quid. Decisions get made for a reason and if they state its to cover rent increases you need to accept it. If a decision is wrong then we are the ones who get blamed and have to deal with the consequences. If your club lost some of its prime stretches it would be disastrous, you can just change clubs to fish those venues. I suspect the club is BM, a club that has been around 140+ years and runs over 20 fisheries so they must be doing something right. Midland rents and club tickets have been cheap for many years and land owners / farmers looking for extra income have seen it. They have seen the increased numbers of anglers arriving on their waters. Quite probably they have been approached by a syndicate or another club for their rights and now see the real value. The days of dropping £50 and a bottle of Whiskey over to the Farmer at Christmas have gone. These days Clubs have to pay up or get off especially on The Trent where there will always be someone wanting to take it on.
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I was on a committee of a fishing club for many years back in my younger days, Mark. Attended numerous work parties as well, so fully understand the issues. Also, nowhere in anything I've posted have I "slagged" off the club, heck, I've not even mentioned which club it is. Yes I do think 25% is a lot to increase the ticket by in one go. There are others who have mentioned this increase on the clubs Facebook page too, so I'm not alone. If my car insurance was to go up by 25% I'd be on the phone straight away asking for a better deal.

I have no axe to grind with anyone involved in the running of the club, far from it, I think they do an excellent job. I just though an increase of 25% in ticket prices was a little excessive and thought I'd post a topic on here asking other peoples thoughts. Unfortunately, one or two people have taken my topic the wrong way and seem to think I'm moaning, which I'll reiterate, I'm not.
 
Simon Archer said:
One of the two clubs I'm a member of have just increased their ticket price by nearly 25% to £100. Whether the price is still good value isn't the debate, but is a 25% increase a little steep ?? I was in two minds as to whether to re join again this season anyway, so may not bother this coming season. I didn't attend the AGM, so have no argument to bare.

I'm just wondering what peoples opinions are on clubs increasing their prices, and by how much they think is acceptable ??
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Specifically?
 
Steve Sorrell said:
For me there are several ways of looking at it. I can only speak from my experience of my local waters/clubs (mainly Thames tributaries).
In general over the last few seasons the quality of fishing has declined rapidly. This season in probably 80 hours fishing on one of my club waters, I've had 2 bites.......yes seriously.
I'm just wondering how clubs are going to be able to pass on the rising lease costs to the members when fishing is so bad.
My generation is quite happy to pay for good parking and solitude but how many young anglers are going to continue to pay increasing costs for decreasing quality of fishing?
No wonder they are turning to the commercials........
Not for me thanks.
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Steve, I think the answer lies in treats when you are fishing a water like that.
Few Wye days, couple of Trent days, Itchen etc.
Or you'll go crackers...😂
 
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