the presentations which lasted an hour were friendly, useful, informative and not a bit stuffy or overly formal. If the fishing matches up to the admin then I am in for a treat. Too many waters however for someone like me to do justice to!Update on this amazing club! I attended the compulsory meeting held in a school on Holmes Chapel. I naively thought there might be a dozen or so attendees but set off early. I was amazed to see signs on the access road for PAAS meeting and then men wearing PAAS jackets directing traffic into the car park. There were already dozens of cars. By 10. 30 the car park was full and people were were parking on adjacent roads. There were over 150 attendees
Inside the school and with a degree of efficiency and professionalism found only at major conferences , I was directed to a desk to collect an envelope containing my club card, car sticker and key. I was then directed to a further desk(all manned by 4 officials) to collect a goodie bag containing a large A4 folder and professionally prepared maps and details of all the 220 or so waters arranged alphabetically inside. This info is just amazing and the maps are very detailed. Each sheet contains specific rules.
About 150 members were attending to their first compulsory meeting!
So far do good Prince Albert! I will give the closest water a try tomorrow!
And now your party piece is a John Thomas that can do a fair impression of Herman Munster.
Time will tell Stuart but having received an invitation to join I could not resist. It is reputed to be the biggest fishing club in Europe with 10,000 members and 3,000 on the waiting listBlimey Mike apon viewing the clubs website that has surely gotta be the biggest club in the country what with around 250 waters unbelievable mate and for about £120 to me has gotta be complete bargain,
Wish I had waters like that down here in Kent
Me personally Mike I'd definitely join up :thumbs:
Mine is 12 inches but I do not use it as a rule
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Time will tell Stuart but having received an invitation to join I could not resist. It is reputed to be the biggest fishing club in Europe with 10,000 members and 3,000 on the waiting list
Too many waters though ; I hardly know where to start! In fact I am going to visit the closest called Rossmere about a mile away! I will be on my best behaviour
from the massive amount of waters they've got, to to honest I was actually blown away scrolling down the list 
Blimmin heck, I could see from there website that it looked big but 10.000 members and 3.000 on the list and being the biggest in Europe, no wander they had officials wearing the club jackets as car park attendants
Hope you find some suitable waters, not as if there short of a few
Be lucky
41 years Man and Boy and I've still not fished all the coarse waters.
It's a bit like Hotel California.... You can checkout, but you can never leave
Mike you have mail
Update on this amazing club! I attended the compulsory meeting held in a school on Holmes Chapel. I naively thought there might be a dozen or so attendees but set off early. I was amazed to see signs on the access road for PAAS meeting and then men wearing PAAS jackets directing traffic into the car park. There were already dozens of cars. By 10. 30 the car park was full and people were parking on adjacent roads. There were over 150 attendees
Inside the school and with a degree of efficiency and professionalism found only at major conferences , I was directed to a desk to collect an envelope containing my club card, car sticker and key. I was then directed to a further desk(all manned by 4 officials) to collect a goodie bag containing a large A4 folder and professionally prepared maps and details of all the 220 or so waters arranged alphabetically inside. This info is just amazing and the maps are very detailed. Each sheet contains specific rules.
About 150 members were attending to their first compulsory meeting!
So far so good Prince Albert! I will give the closest water a try tomorrow!
mg:
I am going to try the closest water to me today.