Good Evening People,
I am currenlty a member of what would be classed as a club.
Time to renew will be coming up soon and I am looking.
What is the difference between a club and syndicate other than the later being significantly more expensive? Limit on number of members?
If anyone has any recommendations on good clubs/syndicates I would love to hear them. I currently live 5-8 miles North of the Yately lakes.
Many thanks,
Daniel
I am currenlty a member of what would be classed as a club.
Time to renew will be coming up soon and I am looking.
What is the difference between a club and syndicate other than the later being significantly more expensive? Limit on number of members?
If anyone has any recommendations on good clubs/syndicates I would love to hear them. I currently live 5-8 miles North of the Yately lakes.
Many thanks,
Daniel
In reply to Post #1
A syndicate used to be a group of people who would be get together and lease or buy a lake and then split the costs of running the lake between them and all enjoy the benefit of having the water.
Now 99% of the time, syndicates are basically how you describe them as being glorified clubs. Someone or a company/organisation will buy or lease the water and then to try and cover their costs and maybe try to make some money will sell membership to the waters.
So they are more expensive but usually have a lot less members. The other thing a syndicate might require is that you attend work parties to help in the maintenance of the water.
A syndicate used to be a group of people who would be get together and lease or buy a lake and then split the costs of running the lake between them and all enjoy the benefit of having the water.
Now 99% of the time, syndicates are basically how you describe them as being glorified clubs. Someone or a company/organisation will buy or lease the water and then to try and cover their costs and maybe try to make some money will sell membership to the waters.
So they are more expensive but usually have a lot less members. The other thing a syndicate might require is that you attend work parties to help in the maintenance of the water.
In reply to Post #1
Syndicates don't have to be overly expensive if you can get in the right one.
Syndicates don't have to be overly expensive if you can get in the right one.
In reply to Post #3
Thank you both for the explanation.
I have been told that my "club" runs in the same manner. When asking someone who owned the waters, the answer was, "the members own the waters"
Thank you both for the explanation.
I have been told that my "club" runs in the same manner. When asking someone who owned the waters, the answer was, "the members own the waters"
In reply to Post #4
True syndicates tend to be very under the radar, very little info on the web (for good reason) . Less of them about these days as people have seen the money that can be made and a lot of the water's that used to have old school syndicate's on are now run as a business.
Ashmead is a good example, £2 a day years ago, then a period of proper old school syndicate fishing, now it's a business sadly.
True syndicates tend to be very under the radar, very little info on the web (for good reason) . Less of them about these days as people have seen the money that can be made and a lot of the water's that used to have old school syndicate's on are now run as a business.
Ashmead is a good example, £2 a day years ago, then a period of proper old school syndicate fishing, now it's a business sadly.
In reply to Post #4
Not all clubs are the same and not all waters within clubs may be the same. Some waters may be leased (short or long), some waters may actually be owned outright. I can't remember the name of it but there are also different ways of running clubs,societies, amalgamated and it may not necessarily be all the members who benefit if it folds. That's a 2 way door though as it means if the club folds with debts the members may not be liable.
Syndicates may be just that but it tends to be a generic term nowadays refering to closed membership as opposed to the whole membership owning the water/lease, and as mentioned it's also gaining momentum as a investment/business.
Not all clubs are the same and not all waters within clubs may be the same. Some waters may be leased (short or long), some waters may actually be owned outright. I can't remember the name of it but there are also different ways of running clubs,societies, amalgamated and it may not necessarily be all the members who benefit if it folds. That's a 2 way door though as it means if the club folds with debts the members may not be liable.
Syndicates may be just that but it tends to be a generic term nowadays refering to closed membership as opposed to the whole membership owning the water/lease, and as mentioned it's also gaining momentum as a investment/business.
In reply to Post #5
Was that £2 a day as in £730 a year?
Or £2 every time you wanted to fish for a day?
Was that £2 a day as in £730 a year?
Or £2 every time you wanted to fish for a day?
In reply to Post #7
£2 a day when ever you wanted to fish, there was no annual ticket. I think it went to £5 latterly
£2 a day when ever you wanted to fish, there was no annual ticket. I think it went to £5 latterly
In reply to Post #8
How did that work as a syndicate?
How did that work as a syndicate?
In reply to Post #9
It wasn't a syndicate at that point, anyone could rock up pay their few quid and fish but very few ever did back then.
It wasn't a syndicate at that point, anyone could rock up pay their few quid and fish but very few ever did back then.
In reply to Post #10
How long ago was Ashmead a "proper old school syndicate"? Before Mark bought the place and did all the work on it?
How long ago was Ashmead a "proper old school syndicate"? Before Mark bought the place and did all the work on it?
In reply to Post #10
So it was an open access day ticket lake, then bought by Mark and turned into a syndicate (under the current definition) after a tonne of work expanding it from what was a couple of separate small pools, before becoming what it is today? I love the place and always interested in the history of waters and fascinated that Single Scale was available on a £2 per day ticket
So it was an open access day ticket lake, then bought by Mark and turned into a syndicate (under the current definition) after a tonne of work expanding it from what was a couple of separate small pools, before becoming what it is today? I love the place and always interested in the history of waters and fascinated that Single Scale was available on a £2 per day ticket
In reply to Post #12
It was 12lb when i first caught it
It was 12lb when i first caught it
In reply to Post #11
It was a syndicate for a number of years before he bought it.
It was a syndicate for a number of years before he bought it.