Rod Limits and Catch Return System
       
 
Waters where rod limits apply are controlled by checking stations.
It is intended to provide checking stations wherever possible.
       
  1 Signing in and out. At any Club water, where there is a checking station, members should sign in on arrival and complete their catch return in the book when signing out.
Where there is no checking station members may fish without booking in.
       
  2 Rod Limits and Catch Returns. Where rods are limited, members should place their numbered disc (and child’s disc or guest ticket if needed) on a hook in the checking station or hut and complete the forms provided to record their visit and enter their catch or nil return. Any member who exceeds the rods available through the checking station system will be suspended and liable to subsequent expulsion. The number of hooks in the checking station represents the number of rods available.
If there is no spare hook, do not fish (but see also number 7)
       
  3 Catch Returns. If there is no checking station, a catch return is not required.
       
  4 Ladybower Reservoir. Members wishing to book one of the Club’s rods on Ladybower Reservoir should telephone the Fishery Office - 01433 651254 between 7 a.m. & 5 p.m. They must collect a catch return form from the fishery office and complete and post it in one of the catch return boxes after fishing. No guests or children are allowed on our Club tickets but they may be taken and paid for at the Fishery Office.
       
  5 Guests. Members are allowed to take one guest per day to one club water subject to the maximum of six per season. At Ogston Reservoir more than one guest may be taken on one day provided that guest tickets are completed for each guest.
       
  6 Guest tickets. Members should complete a guest ticket before starting fishing. The date and the name of the water should be written in ink on the ticket. This ticket must clipped to a checking station hook or, where there is no checking station, be carried by the guest while fishing.
       
  7 Guests and children fishing. If you take a guest or child to any club water and all the rods are taken, the guest or child may fish even though that exceeds the rod limit for that water. The guest’s ticket, or child’s disc, should then be carried by the member. The member may not fish until another angler checks out and leaves a vacant rod. The member may then sign in and fish.
       
  8 Returning Guest Tickets in checking stations.Where there is a checking station or hut, members should leave guest tickets in the box provided, when they complete their catch return (including the guest’s) and sign out.
       
  9
Returning Guest Tickets by post. Where there is no checking station guest tickets must be returned to the Club Fisheries Secretary in an envelope marked GUEST TICKET on the flap. A catch return should be written on the back of the ticket. The address for the return of Guest Tickets is:
     
Ron Trevis
The Homestead,
Sutton Lane, Sutton Scarsdale,
Chesterfield, Derbyshire S44 5UP
       
  10 Rod Limits on Club Waters
   
Water
* Denotes there is a hut or checking station for catch returns and guest tickets.		 Rod Limit
Guest Tickets
and Catch Returns
Bishop’s Pool
* 10 Leave in box in hut
Coneygre Farm Lake * 10 Leave in box in checking station
Coneygre Widgeon Lake * 14 Leave in box in checking station
River Derwent, Allestree No limit Return guest ticket by post
River Derwent, Borrowash to Sawley No limit No guest ticket required for day fishing but see 14 below for night guests
River Derwent, South Darley No limit Return guest ticket by post
River Derwent, Willersley Castle * 10 Leave in box in checking station
River Dove, Church Mayfield * 5 Leave in box in checking station
River Dove, Crowdecote No limit Return guest ticket by post
River Dove, Wolfscote Dale * 10 Leave in box in checking station
Hoon Hay Farm Lake * 10 Leave in box in hut
River Idle, East Retford No limit No guest ticket required
River Manifold, North No limit Return guest ticket by post
River Manifold, Central No limit Return guest ticket by post
River Manifold, South No limit Return guest ticket by post
Ogston Reservoir * 80 Leave in box in checking station
River South Esk See 12 below 4 These rods must be booked in advance
Sutton Lake * No limit Leave in box in checking station
Willington Fisheries * No limit Leave in box in checking station
Wilne Pool * No limit Leave in box in checking station
Ladybower Reservoir - see note 4 * 4 These rods must be booked in advance. No guests or children are permitted.
River Derwent, Whatstandwell to Ambergate No limit Return guest ticket by post
       
  11 Members may not fish the following waters more than twice in one week.

Bishop’s Pool, Willersley Castle, Church Mayfield, Wolfscote Dale.

A week is counted from Sunday to the following Saturday.
       
  12 To book rods on the River South Esk. Please contact Mike Ashworth, 6, Chase Road, Ambergate, Derbyshire DE56 2HA Tel. 01773 853209 (Evenings and Weekends)
       
  13 A guest ticket must be used when taking a guest to all waters except the Lower Derwent and the River Idle.
       
  14 Any fish caught by a guest or child shall be deemed to have been caught by the member and will be counted against the member’s catch.
       
  15 When taking a guest night fishing on the Lower Derwent a ticket must be completed and returned by post as described previously.
       
     
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