Treatment of anglers not good

I am responding to a front page story in the Shropshire Star, August 30, headlined "Warning on need to clean up river."

A season's permit to fish town waters costs £26 - part of the fishing covered on this permit is the Rea Brook.

If Councillor Peter Nutting thinks the River Severn is bad he should walk from the old way bridge (the back of the garages in Mary Webb Road) to the mouth of the Severn.

There are lots of trees stopping the flow of the water - all borough council water.

I've asked Nick Argue, the chairman of Shrewsbury Angling Federation, about cleaning out the banks of the Rea Brook. He says the Rea Brooke is wild water so the SAF won't clear its banks.

So what is the permit money spent on and the £8 fine non-permit holders pay to bailiffs to be allowed to carry on fishing?

The SAF is only interested in is keeping the river banks along the Quarry for fishing competitions clean and tidy.

Monkmoor is only tidy because of cattle that graze on that land. Permit fees are supposed to be for paying for bank clearing for access for fishing the banks of the Severn, especially by where the new theatre is being built.

By the Welsh Bridge has been a good fishing area for me.

It is my opinion the SAF just doesn't work; it wants the money but not the work.

I hear from fishermen in Telford they have four pools and two miles of the Severn and pay £18 per year. Their fishing is cleared out for them.

It's as if fishermen are not wanted in Shrewsbury.

Jim Wall, Shrewsbury