Our Local Club Lake
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 3:04 pm
This was relinquished when the old forum was closed, so I thought some may wish to air their views on here .
As my friends on the Forum's will remember the Cambridge Model Boat club site is a lake in Histon Cambridge , and followers of the old thread will know that we have been under threat of losing it when the owners decided to lease their asset to a Fishing Group , which undertook to upgrade the lake, to facilitate THEIR needs, and whilst improvements to security hitherto not needed by us , but required by them to protect it from the general public and any aspiring fisherman from unlawfully removing their stock of Carp from the lake .
We lost our previously unlimited use of the lake to a specified 2 hour slot each week , and we have had to put up with self acclaimed owners who felt that their needs were grater than ours [ even thou if broken down to an hourly rate of use our club paid a much higher price for our usage of the lake than theirs ,
] however we have recently been offered another venue [which has no fishing rights ] but further from some of the membership than others whilst still in the county .
The new site [ which I have yet to visit ] offers the promise of far better facilities , a club house with toilets and a kitchen presently used by a model sailing club which also accommodates dingy's but has numerous lakes associated with it .
Not sure if its a collection of quarries but claims to have many separate lakes to use , so must get my butt over their and check it out ......and from the few pictures I have seen shows promise , and will cost the club less to use , so reservations [ sorry for pun ] but may be the answer to the clubs problems .
As my friends on the Forum's will remember the Cambridge Model Boat club site is a lake in Histon Cambridge , and followers of the old thread will know that we have been under threat of losing it when the owners decided to lease their asset to a Fishing Group , which undertook to upgrade the lake, to facilitate THEIR needs, and whilst improvements to security hitherto not needed by us , but required by them to protect it from the general public and any aspiring fisherman from unlawfully removing their stock of Carp from the lake .
We lost our previously unlimited use of the lake to a specified 2 hour slot each week , and we have had to put up with self acclaimed owners who felt that their needs were grater than ours [ even thou if broken down to an hourly rate of use our club paid a much higher price for our usage of the lake than theirs ,
] however we have recently been offered another venue [which has no fishing rights ] but further from some of the membership than others whilst still in the county .The new site [ which I have yet to visit ] offers the promise of far better facilities , a club house with toilets and a kitchen presently used by a model sailing club which also accommodates dingy's but has numerous lakes associated with it .
Not sure if its a collection of quarries but claims to have many separate lakes to use , so must get my butt over their and check it out ......and from the few pictures I have seen shows promise , and will cost the club less to use , so reservations [ sorry for pun ] but may be the answer to the clubs problems .
