Permits represent a bargain
From a very early age I enjoyed trips to fish the Chesterfield and Stockwith
canal in the Retford area, and by the age of 12 I had learned to fly fish
for chub on that water.
I was still enjoying this fishing until recently and it is better than
ever. Catching chub there on buzzy dry flies is great sport.
Then in my early twenties I started fishing the river Idle where it flows
close to Retford and not far from the canal.
The roach fishing in winter was superb and I was very pleased to have
been invited to join a small club run by the late Tag Barnes which gave
me access to that river fishing.
Today the huge shoals of big roach are less likely to be found but good
chub and perch, and even barbel afford excitement.
My reason for telling you all this is that also in my 20s (some 50-odd
years ago) I joined the Derbyshire County Angling Club run then by late
Owen Handley.
Over many years of membership the club’s list of fisheries on both
stillwaters and rivers for all manner of fish both game and coarse.
Now the fishing on the canal has been taken over by Derbyshire County
Angling Club, and the length of the river Idle has been held by the same
big club for some years too.
While getting membership of the DCAC is well worth while non-members are
able to buy season tickets for the canal and the river fishing on the
Idle.
What a bargain these permits are. You can have a canal permit for a mere
£18 a season, and a river permit at the same £18, or a double
permit for both river and canal at £30.
The canal has recently been stocked with tench and bream and rudd and
clubs can book matches on these waters too.
Applications for the permits must go to: Mr Ron Trevis, The Homestead,
Sutton Lane, Sutton Scarsdale, Nr. Chesterfield, S54 5UP.
Send a SAE and a cheque or postal order made out to Derbyshire County
Angling Club, and a good quality passport sized photograph too.
I consider all the permits mentioned to be astonishing bargains.