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A STATEMENT FROM THE TYNE ANGLERS ALLIANCE:
Feb 2010
As you all know the TAA have been in
discussions with the latest owner of the Lakeside complex at
Fellgate regarding his decision to halt angling on the site
Although both our secretary Stan Henderson
and indeed The Environment Agency have talked to him, and
explained the need for local angling at Lakeside, we have been
unable to persuade the owner to reconsider. We are therefore
obliged to inform all TAA members and affiliated member clubs
that the decision to cease ALL angling at Lakeside is now
absolute and in force.
For the avoidance of any doubt please be advised
that The TAA now have no jurisdiction over the two ponds at all.
We have also had it put to us that ANYONE angling in future will
be liable to prosecution, so please inform all members of this
fact, and remove the waters from your club books.
We understand that the owner would like to
develop the site, and if that happens and the ponds are filled
in, The Environment Agency will help rescue the fish, but as
things stand at present no fish are to be removed.
Over the years Lakeside has been the subject of
complaints regarding irresponsible anglers leaving litter and
behaving badly, and whilst it would be wrong to say that their
actions were the reasons that caused angling to be lost, it is
true that we would have had more local support to keep angling
open had our behaviour been better. Perhaps all clubs should
learn from this
Whilst disappointed at the outcome on Lakeside
the TAA however remain optimistic about coarse angling in the
region. The new fishery at Hexham's Wydon Burn which has seen
Hexham AA join the ranks of the TAA is a positive step, and they
are other opportunities in the pipeline as we speak.
The two Lakes at Killingworth, the two stretches
of the tidal Tyne at Newburn and the much improved Throckley
Reigh are of course unaffected by what has happened at Lakeside,
and remain open to all TAA members.
Thank you for your support. If anyone ever
wishes to attend a TAA meeting they are more than welcome. They
take place on the third Tuesday of every month in the Empire CIU
Club on Salters Road off the High Street, Gosforth.
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