News

Tomorrow Saturday 22nd February we will open some of the swims at Petersfinger.

The surrounding fields are still flooded which in turn has keep part of Clarks Lake underwater.
Large parts of Hands Lake will be accessible, but please keep off the wet, muddy and fenced off swims.
No access across the causeway.

Clarkes Lake.
Three or four swims are available in the deep end and one swim on the boards swim.
The rest is out of bounds.
These might change at short notice because of the fluctuating river levels.

Please respect the above restrictions.

Dear members,

The water from the recent floods has dropped at Steeple Lanford and both lakes will reopen tomorrow 13th February.

Both Petersfinger and Steeple Langford Lakes are severely flooded. Closed until further notice.

Please check the club forum and the website for updates.

We have reintroduced the traffic light system which we operated a few years ago to indicate which fisheries are closed (red), fishable with care (yellow) or fully open (green).  Notes of local conditions will be shown alongside the traffic light.

Please report any areas of concern.

Please only use the middle gate on Kingfisher Lake to enter the fishery and keep off any muddy swims please.

We regret to inform members that both Petersfinger and Steeple Langford Lakes are severely flooded and were closed this morning until further notice.

Please check the club forum and the website for updates.

From Friday 20th December, Steeple Langford Fishery is open to Members under the following conditions.

1. Due to storm damage the main gate from the car park is tied off, please use the small gate onto Kingfisher Lake, please ensure the gate is properly closed and latched after use.
2. The car park bank on Kingfisher remains badly flooded, please do not attempt to fish from or transit this bank.
3. At the request of the landowner, and due to residual flooding, the path from the wicket gate at the top of the North Bank on Whitebird around past the front of the Bungalow to the stile at the top of the South Bank is strictly out of bounds. Please respect this restriction.
4. It is strongly recommended not to fish from any waterlogged platforms.
5. One swim on the Whitebird South bank is closed due to a fallen tree totally blocking the peg, with a risk of instability please avoid this area.
6. Do not forget to sign in on arrival and please remember that nets/mats/cradles will still need to be dipped to maintain biosecurity.

Zoom and the AGM and other meetings.
Webinars and Meetings  held using “Zoom” technology or similar are becoming increasingly commonplace. Online meetings and consultations are part of the lives of most of us these days. We moved over to Zoom from face to face meetings at the time of the Covid epidemic. Our Zoom meetings include the bimonthly committee,  the Game Meeting, the Bailiff meeting, numerous internal meetings including the coarse, finance, planning and other committee subgroups. The AGM is held a Webinar.

The main difference between Zoom meetings and webinars is that meetings are designed for collaboration, while webinars are designed for presenting content to a large audience.

The move to Zoom proved to have several advantages:
attendance at meetings increased, more members full and associate took part,
cost of meetings reduced,
meetings became more businesslike,
travel reduced for members, officers and volunteers,
volunteer and staff time saved.
There were also several disadvantages:
A few members could not take part due to technology issues,
A few members objected on principle,
Voting and question and answer facilities proved tricky,
Loss of face to face informal contact.
After the pandemic we have returned to face to face meetings for the Game Meeting, many of the sub groups, the Open Day because the face to face contact proved most valuable in these settings. (We have tried to develop a Coarse Meeting in the past and would happily hold a face to face session for coarse members but attendance has always been an issue.)
We have continued Zoom meetings for the full committee and the AGM and for those subgroups where it can prove a quick and effective way of conducting business.
We have reviewed and refined the voting and question and answer part of the Zoom Webinar.
At the AGM we will be putting […]

Dear members,

Please be informed that we will not be continuing fishing Haywards Pond.
The pond proved unpopular with our members and was visited only a handful of times last year.

It is now closed and the owner has been informed.

Dear members,

All lakes at Petersfinger and Steeple Langford are closed with immediate effect due to flooding. Please check the club’s forum for updates.