|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fishery Name: Butts Mill - HBAA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Address: Belmont Road, Great Harwood, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB6 7HL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Entrance Grid Ref:SD 72962 32344
Car Park Grid Ref: SD 72962 32344 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sat Nav: BB6 7HL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Phone Numbers: 01254 234365 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Email Address: [email protected] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: Butts Mill - Hyndburn and Blackburn Angling Association
A pleasant, enclosed, little water some 4000 square metres, situated at Upper Great Harwood. It is set amongst trees, and the area is surrounded by private houses. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fish Species:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Rules: 01. In addition to these rules Members are required to observe and perform the rules relating to each individual facility of the Association. Such rules are noted where appropriate. FAILURE TO ADHERE TO THE RULES WILL LEAD TO DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST THE OFFENDING ANGLER AND MAY RESULT IN A BAN AND/OR LEGAL ACTION. NO EXCUSES. NO APPEALS. NO REFUNDS. 02. Access to all Association facilities must be by the designated routes and gates, and members must restrict their movements in no more than three metres from the water�s edge. All gates must be locked on access and egress. Lock combination numbers must be scrambled. Lock codes are confidential and must not be disclosed. 03. Members must have, and carry with them, a current seasons rod licence, or licences, and membership card with a permanently attached photograph, signed across the photograph, when using the Associations water. These must be produced when requested by a club bailiff, or any other member of the Association. If any of these valid licences cannot be produced you will be asked to leave the water. NO LICENCE NO FISHING. 04. LITTER, including all line, hooks, shot, bait bags, drink and food containers must be taken away from the Association facilities irrespective of the depositor. All excess ground bait/bait must not be deposited on the bank, or into the water. 05. Members must observe the byelaws of the appropriate water authority. 1 2022 Handbook_Inners:Layout 1 25/11/2021 14:14 Page 1 06. The Committee is empowered to amend the byelaws of the local authority provided such amendment is not unlawful. 07. The Association still water fisheries shall be deemed Course Fisheries on which there will be NO close season. This is UNLESS the Committee issues further instructions. 08. Members are permitted to use a single rod or pole only at any one time, although additional rods or poles may be assembled but they must not be baited, unless specific fishery rules allow multiple rods. 09. Anglers must remain within 3 meters of their rods whilst fishing. If a rod is left unattended then the hook and bait must be withdrawn from the water (per Environment Agency Byelaw). 10. Coarse fish must be returned safely to the water from which they were captured. Live fish cannot be used as bait on Association facilities. 11. No dogs will be allowed on Association facilities except for bailiff duties, when they must be kept on a leash. 12. No members are permitted visitors or guests, on Association facilities without prior written permission from the Committee. 13. Pitching stones must not be removed from the banks or dams of any of the Associations facilities. If pitching stones are accidentally disturbed by a members action, they must be reset immediately, and the Association must be informed. 14. Members must not deface trees or shrubs, or dig into the banks and fields adjacent to Association facilities. 2 2022 Handbook_Inners:Layout 1 25/11/2021 14:14 Page 2 15. Members must not light open fires on any of the Association facilities. 16. Members must not attempt to extract bloodworm or joker from any of the Association facilities. 17. Members must not commence fishing within ten metres of a fellow member unless such fellow members consent is first obtained, or unless fishing from permanent pegs which may be closer than 10 metres apart. 18. Members must not erect tents on any Association facility with the exception of fishing umbrellas and/or shelters manufactured specifically as angling shelters. 19. Livestock must not be disturbed or driven from the water. The only exception to this rule is the removal of cormorants which will be governed by the committee. 20. Portable radios and recorders may be taken onto the Association facilities but can only be played with an earphone. 21. Junior members are permitted to use one rod only. A parent or guardian may accompany up to 2 junior members only on facilities permitted for junior members. Senior members may accompany a maximum of two junior members on all Association facilities. Senior members may supervise 2 children up to 8 years old fishing from the same peg, for non specimen fish with one rod only. 22. No juniors to fish the river, or Rishton reservoir, without a senior member. 23. Junior members shall not be permitted to fish during the hours of darkness unless accompanied by a senior member. 3 2022 Handbook_Inners:Layout 1 25/11/2021 14:14 Page 3 24. Association fisheries shown as being used in the Senior and Junior match programmes shall be closed from midnight until after the match on the day it is being fished, except those matches on Rishton Reservoir when the section of the fishery with the pegged match length only, will be closed as above. 25. Members must cease fishing immediately on any Association facility when an organised work party commences. 26. Members must not commit, or use Social Media, or cause to be done, anything that may result in angling or the Association being brought into disrepute. 27. Any member discovering the access to a fishery secured by a RED LOCK must assume that this has been placed by the Fishery Officer for management reasons, and must NOT attempt to gain entry or fish the water. 28. The field side of Little Rishton is closed to angling and designated a Nature Reserve. 29. Recreational or illegal drugs will not be tolerated. An immediate ban will follow. Abuse to any other member of the Association will not be tolerated. Failure to comply with any of the rules will result in being asked to leave the fishery and be reported to the Committee for further action. 30. The use of spinners and plugs is permitted on all facilities. On still waters of less than one hectare of surface water, the use of spinners and plugs is only permitted when consent of all present co-users of the facility has been obtained. 4 2022 Handbook_Inners:Layout 1 25/11/2021 14:14 Page 4 31. Fish must not be held in a keep-net for more than six consecutive hours. If fish show signs of acute distress whilst held in a keep-net such fish must be liberated immediately. Carp with the exception of Crucian Carp may only be retained in a keep-net during Association matches. Such nets must satisfy the relevant byelaws. In hot or severely hot weather no keep-nets are to be used and ALL fish must be returned to the water ASAP making sure they are strong enough to swim away. NO RETAINING OF CARP IS PERMITTED. 32. Keep-nets must be constructed of a knotless material. The minimum requirements to comply with the Environment Agency byelaws - no knotted meshes or meshes of metallic material; no holes in the mesh larger than 25mm internal circumference; not less than 2.0 metres in length; with supporting rings or frames not greater than 40cm apart (excluding the distance from the top frame to the first supporting ring or frame) or not less than 120cm in circumference. All specimen anglers must carry a suitable landing net of 1 metre minimum, along with a large padded 50mm minimum unhooking mat, or cradle. 33. Members fishing Kearns Allens lodges are only allowed to fish 48 hours from arrival time. No return within 48 hours. 34. MULTIPLE rods on electronic bite alarms are allowed as follows:- Little Rishton - Two Rods Big Rishton - Three Rods Kearns Allen - Two Rods Platts - Two Rods. 35. All specimen anglers fishing for Carp or Pike must use a �none fixed lead system�, that discharges the lead in the event of a break off or snagged line. NO RIGS MUST BE SUPER GLUED. No lead core. Unleaded or fused, safe zone leaders are 5 2022 Handbook_Inners:Layout 1 25/11/2021 14:14 Page 5 allowed. Fluorocarbon or monofilament shock leaders are permitted. No stainless steel hooks or bent rigs may be used. No fixed lead rigs, and all leads must pass freely over leader knot. This will be subject to having your rigs checked upon request by a club bailiff or Committee member. All Anglers targeting Pike must use a Wire Trace. 36. Specimen Anglers must possess Carp Care antiseptic, which must be shown when asked for by an appointed bailiff, and used when required on hook holes or sores. This is also mandatory and any one not carrying the required kit will be asked to leave the fishery, and not return until they have obtained the correct kit. 37. Members fishing Association waters during the hours of darkness will require a night fishing permit. 38. Night fishing is only allowed with a night fishing license and permitted on the following waters:- Big Rishton Reservoir, Little Rishton Reservoir, Kearns Allen, Platts. 39. A maximum number of anglers in bivvies is permitted on the following waters:- Four on Bottom Kearns Allen; Two on Top Kearns Allen; Three on Little Rishton; Four on Platts. 40. Bailiffs must be granted access to carry out a full inspection of bags and equipment on HBAA facilities and following the angler leaving the facilities. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Facilities:
> There is secure Car Parking |
©Norfolk Fishing Network 2004 - 2024®All Rights Reserved.
