Clwb Godre'r Mynydd Du Shooting & Fishing

Feb 25th New NRW Bylaws

Please take note that the new NRW bylaws come into force this season, NO salmon can be killed but must be returned promptly to the water alive. There are also new rules for sewin and hooks

The regulations as apply to the Towy and Aman are below:

Salmon

Loughor (Aman) Salmon season – 20th March to 17th October

Towy (Cothi) salmon season – 1st April – 17th October (1^st April – 7^th October on club waters)

Strictly no worming for salmon

All salmon must be released with minimum injury and delay (catch and release only)

Shrimp or prawn may be used from 1^st September to 7^th October

SEWIN

Loughor (Aman) Sewin season, worm – 1^st May – 7^th October,

Fly/spin from 20^th March to 17^th October

Towy (Cothi) sewin season – worm, 1^st April – 7^th October (1^st April – 7^th October on club waters)

Fly/spin from 1^st April to 17^th October (1^st April – 7^th October on club waters)

All sea trout caught prior to the 1st May to be released with minimum injury and delay

All sea trout greater than 60cm (approx. 5lb12oz) to be released with minimum injury and delay

Worm can only be used between 1^st May and 7^th October

Worm fishing is only allowed for sea trout with a single worm using a single barbless hook with a gape less than 8mm.

Hooks

All hooks must be barbless or de-barbed

On artificial flies with a hook gape greater than 7mm, hooks are restricted to singles or doubles

On artificial flies with a hook gape 7mm or less, hooks are restricted to a maximum of two hooks with a total of four points between them

No treble or double hooks are permitted on lures used for spinning

Spinners and spoons can have only one single hook with a gape of 13mm or less.

Plugs can have a maximum of three single hooks, each with a gape of 13mm or less.

Shrimp and prawn fishing for salmon is allowed from the 1st September until 7th October with the use of a barbless, single treble hook with a gape of less than 7mm.

A limit of 2 migratory fish (sewin) may be killed in any 24 hour period

Notwithstanding this information, each member must ensure that they always fish within the rules set down in the NRW byelaws – it is your responsibility to check.

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Feb 25th Important news about Llangunnor

Greetings from Africa!

Just to let everyone know – I’ve just been told that we still have the Wenallt beat at Llangunor so this year’s reduced permit price is exceptionally good value

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Sep 18th Our Fishing Under Serious Threat

On 22 July the Minister for Culture and Sport, John Griffiths AM announced a review of the legislative framework relating to access and outdoor recreation in Wales. The aim is to secure better access to the outdoors for recreation, modernise and simplify the current regulatory framework, and provide clarity and certainty and certainty over where people can go and what they can do there.

The main thrust of this review seems to be access to inland waters in other words the right to paddle as the guerrilla canoeists like to term it.

Make no mistake – the mention of rural access, rights of way and provision of allotments and community gardens is just window dressing to camouflage the fact that he wants to allow more unregulated access to canoeists.

Even the civil servants employed as ‘facilitators’ for this review are confessed rabid guerrilla canoeists!

Ladies and gentlemen, this is just a cynical ploy to resurrect the attempt by the Welsh canoe Association to gain free and unfettered access to paddle indiscriminately on our rivers with no respect of our rights as riparian owners.

This went before the Welsh Assembly sustainability committee a few years ago and the outcome was largely in our (the anglers’) favour but whose findings were not implemented by the then minister Jane Davidson as they didn’t fit her idea of giving canoeists free access.

The timelines are very tight with this consultation – ending next month and it is obvious that this minister (John Griffiths) is determined to railroad a bill through, walking roughshod over the rights of landowners, riparian owners and anglers (not to mention the adverse effect on the environment, fish and other wildlife).

There is no doubt that if we don’t fight this the only result possible will be legislation giving canoeists the right to enter our waters AT ANY TIME.

 

NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT! Make no mistake we are in danger of losing the enjoyment of our sport, the time for sitting back and letting others fight for us is long past.

I implore all members to write to their local AM and their regional AMs WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS

Ask friends and family who are sympathetic to our cause also to write

ALL members (including those not living inWales) should write to the First minister Carwyn Jones as well as the minister for Culture and sport John Griffiths.

ALL members should try to get to their AM’s surgeries to express their concerns

 

Letters are better than emails, but emails are better than nothing – both if you can be bothered!

Remember not to be aggressive in your writing as a lot of these AMs are on our side but as yet know little about this review (that’s how sly they have been) so we don’t want to alienate them.

Those of you who have labour AMs especially, point out to them that a lot of fishing rights in Wales uniquely are held by angling clubs set up by ordinary working class people – CGMD was set up mostly by miners and engineering workers who dipped into their hard earned savings to get the club on its feet. Fulfilling the socialist ideal of collective ownership.

 

Here is a link to the Welsh Government website for your AM’s details:

 

http://www.assemblywales.org/memhome.htm

 

The Countryside Alliance have been quick off the mark in finding out about this review which seems to have been kept quiet with not even angling clubs and bodies like the CFF  being invited to the workshops and they are taking this matter so seriously that they are offering angling club members a reduced membership to help fight the campaign.This offer is only available by contacting Rachel Evans the Wales regional director personally – rachel-evans@countryside-alliance.org. I think that £31.00 is a small price to pay to safeguard our sport and remember it gives extra benefits such as insurance and legal advice.

We will need money to fight this attack on our sport so clubs and associations are already being asked to contribute to a fighting fund – if you know anyone who can help, let me know.

 

ACT NOW OR LOSE YOUR FISHING

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