Thursday, August 27, 2009
This weeks entry is not so much of a rant but a question! Why are almost all who partake in this great sport of ours so bloody apathetic? I have just been reading how the newly formed Anglers Trust in the U.K is so cash starved and already having to make redundancies because the millions of anglers in the UK simply can't be bothered to become members. The joining fee is a miserly 20 quid, less than you would spend on a short session out with you mates. I was a personal friend of the late Alan Edwards who was the A.C.A supremo for many years. Alan often fished.....and drank with me over here in the Emerald Isle. The A.C.A was the main guardian of British lakes and rivers gaining countless thousands of pounds through the courts for clubs and riparian owners of fisheries that had been polluted. Without them it is my humble opinion that some would be polluters would just go ahead and do their worst. The knowledge that such a body as the A.C.A was there to bring them to book I am held them back from creating carnage. The new Anglers Trust is a body that encompass's all in the best interests of the angling community. There are hundreds of times when I have often wished such a body existed over here. Let me tell you all this. If the Trust folds lads, angling will be a bloody sight worse off. Please suport the people who stick their necks out to support you bloody miserable shower of apathetic numb nuts. Get off your arses and send off your 20 quids before it's too late.
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Uncle Geoffrey, I have wondered about the angling trust and watched with interest to see how it did develop. I did not join, initially because my ACA membership was still effective but then I did try to do it online more than once but did not go through. I will now deffinately do so particularly as they are now struggling but I cannot see anyone else safeguarding our waterways the way they can, I was a total believer in the ACA (after you`re introduction to Mr Edwards all those years ago in Tarmon) I will in fact join as soon I finish this comment!
ReplyDeleteOne thing I feel that is relevant with their current position is why on earth do they want to know my ethnicity? is this so they can get more people from minorities on the bank? I do hope this is not some politically correct b******s which will lead to a push later on to get more minorities on the bank as they are not properly represented or some other tosh!
Maybe they have gone a little too political too soon and this has not helped with their resources and they should just get on with it and concentrate protecting our fishing like the ACA did!
Regardless, I`ll make ammends by paying up NOW!
M