"MrBlueSkye" wrote in message
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Not been fishing for years, so as there's a river just down the road (I
know
for shame, for shame) I thought must get a rod license........bleddy hell
the robbing swine want £23.75!! Think about it..........£23.75 a season
to
fish the Mersey.


It's £23.75 a year, equal to a few pennies a day to fish *anywhere* in
Britain, you don't have to fish the Mersey

And as already stated by previous posters, it goes towards making rivers fit
to fish in the first place.

Call it insurance against the big fine and possible loss of your tackle if
you're caught without one. Consider the cost of *one* night out at the pub,
or the price of going to one football match. It may seem like a lot, and a
bloody cheek like the TV licencing scheme for people who never watch BBC,
but it's not

I suppose what annoys some people is the fact it only gives you the right to
fish. You are still liable to day ticket/season ticket prices which
definitely wont be a few pennies a day