Please note

Dear Club Members,

As you will know a meeting took place on 30^th August with City Council employees Eddie Curry, James Dymond & John Simpson to further discuss/review The Fishery.  Keith, Bill and Rosemary attended along with season permit holders John Bradbury and Dave Whylie, and new club member Steve Sinclair. 

Prior to this meeting KP and RG had been in touch with The Angling Trust, of which we as a club are members, and I attach below a letter that they  wrote to the Council employees.   I am very glad to say that immediately following the meeting James Dymond contacted The AT, asking for a meeting with them.

We very much hope to hear a follow up in due course and will report in full at our next club meeting on Wed 13^th September. The future of Colwick will obviously be on our agenda and we would urge as many of you as at all possible to attend.  Your support, positive ideas and offers of help will be very important in keeping Colwick going in the way that we feel it should operate.

I must add that John Simpson Manager of Colwick Country Park says he has received a lot of very unpleasant verbal abuse from fishermen in particular. This is not helpful and will not get us very far. I trust this has not come from any of CFFC but if you know of anyone acting in this way please ask them to refrain and to make any complaint they wish to make either to the Club or to James Dymond & Eddie Curry.  Incidentally, Colwick has not been fishing at all well for the last 3 weeks. This is very much due to the water temperature and algae. This happens and the fishery cannot be blamed and many other waters have suffered recently. That is fishing as they say. The next stocking is due on 6^th September  and hopefully with cooling weather and some rain it will freshen things up.

Keep Sunday 17^th September free for a day at the fishery in memory of Jed.   The committee will be putting something out very soon on how this will run. If you intend to come and wish to fish from a boat it would be helpful to know as 6 boats are booked at present, and it would be great to have all the boats out.  

Rosemary & Keith