Most Expensive Day Ticket Ever?

[Maceo]

I'm hoping to fish the local Windrush river sometime soon and looking around the internet I found that a section of the river up towards Burford is owned by the Old Swan Hotel. Apparently this hotel is run by Peter de Savary and his family.

It looks like a very plush hotel and they have rooms at £390 per night that include fishing on the rover.

Well I thought I'd e-mail them and see whether they do day tickets. Got a very nice e-mail back almost straight away confirming that they do. A day ticket costs £35.00!

Wow! My rod only cost £20! I don't think I'll be taking them up on that one.

Is there a more expensive day ticket in Britain that anyone knows about?

[Lman]

Is that for coarse fishing or Trout???????

[Maceo]

Well there's a link to a feature in the Angling Times from February this year which mentions roach, grayling, trout and chub - so a mixture of both I guess.

It was the mention of grayling that caught my attention particularly. Never caught one of those so far.

It must be great fishing down there. I see they'll even deliver a picnic to your swim for a further £25.

Chef’s ‘generously’ filled sandwich selection
Cold meats and pickles/chutneys etc
Vegetable crudites and dips
Salad selection
Fruit bowl
Bread sticks and mini cheese board

Think I'll have to stick to the free section of the Windrush and my cheese rolls and coffee flask though!

Here's a link to some info about it. Looks nice doesn't it?

http://www.fishipedia.com/fishipedia...wan-at-witney/

[northern eye]

Looks like a really nice place...kinda place you'd wander out in the morning after breakfast, have a few hours trotting the stream then lunch on the bank with a few cold beers and back to the fishing. After a good day, catching you would head in for a nice evening meal, an evening stroll along the bank and then more pints and into bed ready for the next day. Sounds great...but as you say, bacon butties and a flask on the free stretch for me too.

[Rob M]

Don't know about most expensive but there's lakes near to where I live that charge £5 a day, £10 for the specimen lake.

[Maceo]

Yeah that's about average I think. The lakes near hear charge £7 and it is £3 on the river.

That's why I was so taken aback by this amount. I thought it might cost a bit more the normal. I thought maybe £12 or £15.

I suppose the sad fact is that those high prices mean that us people of modest means are effectively financially banned from those places. I couldn't justify paying that when I have 3 young kids and - like most people - we're struggling along as it is.

I've always found the concept of someone 'owning' a river or a forest or a beach a bit strange to begin with. I don't know how you can declare yourself the 'owner' of something like that. They should belong to everbody.

Maybe you could buy some land and dig out a lake and say with some reason that it belongs to you, but a stretch of river that's been there since before the Romans were wading across it? Who gave you the right to buy and sell that then?

[martin56]

The pond i fish all the time (PYLON ANGLING CLUB @ Normanton near Wakefield, West Yorks) is £3 a day or £10 for the year book) Great value & loads o' fish - carp,tench,bream,barbel roach,perch,rudd, crusian etc, so always something for everyone (& to go for if your target fish isn't interested).

[chris.oldgit]

Originally Posted by martin56

The pond i fish all the time (PYLON ANGLING CLUB @ Normanton near Wakefield, West Yorks) is £3 a day or £10 for the year book) Great value & loads o' fish - carp,tench,bream,barbel roach,perch,rudd, crusian etc, so always something for everyone (& to go for if your target fish isn't interested).

thats a good deal martin, shame i live to far for it.