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ISSUED: 14 April 2015

WORLD’S OLDEST ANGLING CLUB CASTS A NEW LINE INTO MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE CANAL

 

 

 

MEDIA OPPORTUNITY

 

Gone fishing! The Canal & River Trust will be re-stocking the Rochdale Canal with hundreds of fish. Anglers from Salford Friendly Anglers Society will be trying out their new fishing rights on the banks of the Rochdale Canal at Piccadilly Basin.

Interviews available with John Ellis, fisheries and angling manager with Canal & River Trust & Mike Duddy, chairman of Salford Friendly Anglers Society.

 

Date: Friday 24th April, 11am.

Place: Rochdale Canal, Piccadilly Basin, Manchester

(behind Ducie Street and Piccadilly Station)

 

Contact: Lynn Pegler, Canal & River Trust press officer, mobile 077177 60284 or Jonathan Ludford on 07747 897783.

 

 

 

Dozens of anglers will soon be a familiar sight on the Rochdale Canal through Manchester city centre, thanks to a new fishing agreement between the Canal & River Trust and the world’s oldest angling club, the Salford Friendly Anglers Society.

 

The club, which can trace its roots back to 1817, currently has fishing rights on the River Irwell and a few small lakes and reservoirs around Greater Manchester. However from the end of this April, their members will be able to extend their angling activities to a 12 mile stretch of the Rochdale Canal, from the canal’s start in Castlefield, through Manchester city centre to Middleton, near Rochdale.

 

Anglers will be able to fish for roach, bream, perch, pike, carp, tench and eels which swim between the canal’s many locks.

 

John Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager with the Canal & River Trust, is delighted the Rochdale Canal will soon become a mecca for anglers. He said: “The canal provides a green corridor of peace and tranquillity through the busy urban streets. The water quality has improved greatly in recent years and we are very pleased to welcome Salford anglers as a friendly presence on our towpaths.”

 

Mike Duddy, chairman of the Salford Friendly Anglers Society, added: “This new agreement is a fantastic opportunity for the city’s anglers to enjoy excellent fishing, right on their door step.

 

“The rejuvenation of the Rochdale Canal through Manchester is great for anglers but also for walkers, joggers, boaters and cyclists too. It’s wonderful for people to escape to the canal to enjoy a piece of countryside in the middle of the city. I have recently spotted kingfishers and red shanks flying over the water. It’s a wonderful, peaceful place to enjoy a spot of fishing.

 

“Anyone wanting to fish on the Rochdale Canal should contact the Salford Friendly Anglers Society via www.salfordfriendlyanglers.co.uk. Membership is available free online, as the Society actively encourages people to take up angling as a pastime in a region where so many of the lakes, rivers and canals were polluted by our industrial past.”

 

In addition to being a member of the Salford Friendly Anglers Society, any angler also needs an Environment Agency rod licence (if aged 12 or over) available from https://www.gov.uk/fishing-licences/when-you-need-a-licence

 

ENDS

For further media requests please contact:

Lynn Pegler on 077177 60284 Lynn.pegler@canalrivertrust.org.uk

 

Or Jonathan Ludford on 07747 897783 jonathan.ludford@canalrivertrust.org.uk

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Gone fishing! The Canal & River Trust will be re-stocking the Rochdale Canal with hundreds of fish. Anglers from Salford Friendly Anglers Society will be trying out their new fishing rights on the banks of the Rochdale Canal at Piccadilly Basin.

Now there's an oxymoron I haven't come across before!

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"However from the end of this April, their members will be able to extend their angling activities to a 12 mile stretch of the Rochdale Canal, from the canal’s start in Castlefield, through Manchester city centre to Middleton, near Rochdale.

Anglers will be able to fish for roach, bream, perch, pike, carp, tench and eels which swim between the canal’s many locks."

And in that stretch the friendly anglers will also be able to fish for plastic bags, road cones, discarded clothing, sodden duvets, masses of twisted wire, dumped cars...

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