Birmingham Anglers Association

This just seems like absolute madness to me.

If the bank is that bad and its that difficult to create a good fishable platform then simply don't put one in.

What is the point of putting all that time and effort into creating a platform that's pretty much useless. As for those shallow pegs take a number of pallets and go out into the water. Once you have one pallet in place its easy to work your way out.

Surely time and resources would be better spent creating good quality fishable pegs if that means a stretch of river only had say 10-20 good quality pegs then so be it, but at least everybody would no, and be sure of a safe and happy days fishing.

Lets face it 99% of club matches these days are made up of between 10-20 anglers and none of us are getting any younger.

As for putting 2 platforms in one for flooded rivers and one for normal levels forget that its hard enough to get one quality peg never mind 2 and a total waste of time effort and resources.

Lets face it those dedicated barbel anglers who go out in flood water conditions already have their areas and spots they know from past experience that they will target.

Whats needed moving forward is for an experienced angler with a competent personality to watch over these projects.