Prince Albert AS
WHEN a club has a lengthy waiting list of anglers you know it’s got to be pretty special – and that’s the case with Prince Albert AS.
The huge Cheshire club offers a staggering portfolio of waters to fish right through the season at a bargain price. Good things come to those who wait, so they say!
There’s a waiting list for adults, but not juniors, intermediates and OAPs, all of whom can gain access to secluded meres, big stillwaters and rivers that offer everything from trout and salmon to specimen carp and bream.
The club is also highly active on the tuition front with free coaching days for juniors and an extensive match calendar to get youngsters into fishing.
More than 250 waters are on the club card, ranging from the Scottish Borders down to the western side of England. Night fishing is available on many of these, too, and because the club does not operate a day ticket system you’ll often have a venue all to yourself.
Famous rivers including the Severn, Trent, Mersey and Dee are on offer, plus many smaller intimate trout waters in Wales with fine barbel, chub and roach sport. Fly anglers have the chance to catch fresh-run trout, sea trout and salmon when the time is right.
For stillwater anglers, Redes Mere, part of the Capesthorne Estate in Cheshire, is a famed carp water fished by the biggest names in the sport and home to fish well over 30lb. Bream sport is prolific at Combs Reservoir in the Peak District and on Macclesfield’s Bosley Reservoir.
Canal anglers can fish the Macclesfield Canal around Congleton, and there’s even a commercial carp fishery at Worcestershire’s Cob House Fishery.