Lancaster Canal

The Pike Angler's Club are about to assume control of 35 miles of the Lancaster canal from Lancaster down to Preston including the Glasson arm. This is a piece of water that has produced very big pike in the past, including fish to over 30lbs but which has suffered greatly in recent years from poaching.
The canal will be developed as a general coarse fishery and will be available to book for matches. There will be no day tickets, yearly membership will be available to all at a cost of £25. Pike Angler's Club members will be able to fish the canal for £15 a year but ONLY PAC members will be permitted to fish for pike. The club will not be taking a profit from this venture, all monies will be used for maintenance and development of the fishery.

We are currently looking for bailiffs to help run the fishery. We have a head bailiff appointed, he is a serving police officer and he will be providing training and support for the bailiffing team. If you live near to the canal and would like to be considered for a bailiff's position please email me at eric_edwards@msn.com

Sounds good but a "serving police officer" means nothing, that's just my opinion

It means he's trained and experienced in dealing with people and he will be able to pass these skills on to others. It also means he can give advice according to the law as to what actions the bailiffs can take.

Shame no day tickets.... .... But good luck with it Eric,, .

welsh piker wrote:Shame no day tickets.... .... But good luck with it Eric,, .

PAC membership £22.50 inc quarterly mag + £15 yearly membership = not a lot, I paid £15 for a day ticket recently

Day tickets are not the way we want to go I'm afraid. Day ticket waters are often litter strewn and unkempt because the people who fish there have no sense of ownership of the water. If you have a membership, you have something to lose.
Moreover selling day tickets on the bank just makes your bailiffs targets for thugs who would take the money off them.

Eric is this region31 or the national pac?

I don't live anywhere near there which is bit annoying but why are only PAC members aloud to fish for pike?

noodle wrote:Eric is this region31 or the national pac?

National John.

tomthepiker wrote:I don't live anywhere near there which is bit annoying but why are only PAC members aloud to fish for pike?

Partly because we want to give our members a tangible benefit and partly because we can influence the standard of angling of PAC members more easily than we can others. Running alongside this project we have the PAC's coaching scheme which is building a head of steam across the country. We have a significant number of qualified coaches in the Northwest now and I've applied for a large sum of money from Sport England to get many more members qualified in other areas. If we get the grant, PAC coaching sessions will spring up everywhere, raising the standard of pike fishing for members and non-members alike.

Ye i thought that was the plan it's a pretty good idea to be fair good luck with it man

Can not fish for pike unless you join PAC.....

to be honest its cheaper than most club water memberships and i do agree about the day ticket issues some of the waters i have visited are a disgrace litter and beer cans deadbait packets hidden all over the place . What is hard about taking your litter home baffles me.

Tigi113 wrote:Can not fish for pike unless you join PAC.....

Sounds good to me why should the controlling club let all and sundry on

seems like a good way of doing it.

Seems to me, a lot of you have forgottern how you all started to fish Day ticket venues, local pond, canal or river..... What if all places were membership only how would the youngsters get started....Seems to me, a THEM AND US group....... or yes i did read P.A.C MEMBERSHIP say no more.......

i do understand that but i don't think it will end up with kids having nowhere to go.

I for one will carry on fishing with all and sundry as you call it...fishing is for everyone not just for PAC members....

welsh piker wrote:Seems to me, a lot of you have forgottern how you all started to fish Day ticket venues, local pond, canal or river..... What if all places were membership only how would the youngsters get started....Seems to me, a THEM AND US group....... or yes i did read P.A.C MEMBERSHIP say no more.......

i started on club waters, im still a member of the same club now over 30 years later and the price in that time for juniors has quadrupled, its now 4 quid a year plus leeway on taking guests on as an adult

and in real terms for all that canal as an adult it will be 40 quid, and for that you get the pac behind you public liability four mags use of an exclusive forum discounts and 30 miles of canal
the las have done something similar in the midlands no complaints about that as far as i can see,nor do the carp society or any other specialist group who take on waters. oddly the pac get grief for it

Eric how do we join?

welsh piker wrote:Seems to me, a lot of you have forgottern how you all started to fish Day ticket venues, local pond, canal or river..... What if all places were membership only how would the youngsters get started....Seems to me, a THEM AND US group....... or yes i did read P.A.C MEMBERSHIP say no more.......

Well now, I don't think of you as one of them, is that how you think of me then?

As for juniors, the PAC has slashed the cost of junior membership by 60%, the coaching of juniors is now the highest priority within the club and we have donated many thousands of pounds worth of tackle to juniors right across the country this year alone.

PAC membership is open to everyone, it's not an exclusive organisation, it's very inclusive. PAC is doing a huge amount of work that benefits pikers all across the country whether they are members or not and yet we still get this sniping from a minority. Take a good look at the club and tell us what's not to like.

i live not far from the canal in question but have just cancelled my PAC membership so guess i wont be able to fish it. PAC are not as inclusive as you suggest. i fleft because i found it very clicky and had a select band of members who were favoured. only my opinion.

blacky99 wrote:i live not far from the canal in question but have just cancelled my PAC membership so guess i wont be able to fish it. PAC are not as inclusive as you suggest. i fleft because i found it very clicky and had a select band of members who were favoured. only my opinion.

I'm sorry you thought that, what was it you had the problem with? Did you come down to one of our meetings?

blacky99 wrote:i live not far from the canal in question but have just cancelled my PAC membership so guess i wont be able to fish it. PAC are not as inclusive as you suggest. i fleft because i found it very clicky and had a select band of members who were favoured. only my opinion.

guess I wasn't the only one in that boat then. I just let the membership run its course a few years back, & never renewed.

Eric Edwards wrote:

welsh piker wrote:Seems to me, a lot of you have forgottern how you all started to fish Day ticket venues, local pond, canal or river..... What if all places were membership only how would the youngsters get started....Seems to me, a THEM AND US group....... or yes i did read P.A.C MEMBERSHIP say no more.......

Well now, I don't think of you as one of them, is that how you think of me then?

As for juniors, the PAC has slashed the cost of junior membership by 60%, the coaching of juniors is now the highest priority within the club and we have donated many thousands of pounds worth of tackle to juniors right across the country this year alone.

PAC membership is open to everyone, it's not an exclusive organisation, it's very inclusive. PAC is doing a huge amount of work that benefits pikers all across the country whether they are members or not and yet we still get this sniping from a minority. Take a good look at the club and tell us what's not to like.

Well now, Eric, i never gave an opinion of you. ... I gave an opinion of day ticket.. If you look at the post, i clearly stated, Good luck with it..

However, you clearly have a view on day ticket, which you are entitled to do....Like i have a view on the P.A.C...

Eric, most people are members of club waters, surely this should be enough for people to be allowed to fish that water...

Why the need to join the P.A.C to be allowed to fish for pike Sorry i dont see it..... And yes Eric, i once was a member... P.s... please dont think, that the P.A.C. IS the only organisation that does a lot of work for the benifit of anglers.....

Eric, i was'nt sniping, and looking at the post, don't think im the minority.....

I'm in my second year as a PAC member, the reason I joined was the good they do for pike fishing.
Now I would like to go to local meetings but am a bit(lot) the quiet type, so would like to hear the full story's of the people that quit cos you have totally put me off ever going to a meeting