Rules

1.    Guests: bring as many guests as you want on your ticket. No more than five visits for an individual, one fish per visit, to be taken from your ticket.
2.     Special needs: members with special needs, such as disabilities, who may need a regular helper etc., should apply for an extension to their guest ticket.
3.    Children can come as guests any number of times if accompanied by a member, fish taken (one per person per visit) to come off the members ticket. Members must be 18 and over.
4.    A ticket can be shared between two adults, living at the same address and who are on one income/pension or on state pension only.
5.    If you blank, it does not come off your total. If you catch and release it does.
6.    Kill one fish only per visit. It does not have to be the first. If that is lightly hooked and easy to release, please release it. Kill any fish bleeding from the gill. If this is the second fish that you kill it will not alter your take but please record this on the return.
7.    Never kill a fish over 3lbs unless it is bleeding from the gill.
8.    Only Rainbow trout can be killed. Any other catch must be returned.
9.    Signing in book
i.    Members must sign in in the signing in book on arrival giving: name; time of arrival; postcode; car registration number.
ii.    Members must sign out when leaving giving time of leaving.
iii.    Members must record the number of fish killed and released.
iv.    Members may record the weight of the best fish and flies used.
v.    Members may make comments in the comments section.
10.    Cars. Members must park in the parking area near the boats. Parking is at the owner’s risk.
11.    Car registration numbers must be given to Packington Great Pool Fly Fishing (PGPFF) on joining to help the staff at Packington identify those on the estate. Permanent or temporary changes can be made by entering changes into the signing in book. Members will comply with any other car identification requests made by the Estate.
12.    Vehicular access is from the gates off the A45 or through the barrier off Maxstoke/Packington Lane subject to the purchase of a barrier pass. Members will keep access codes and barrier passes secure.
13.    Members may arrive at the estate one hour before sunrise and leave one hour after sunset. Fishing may commence half hour before sunrise and finish half hour after sunset.
14.    The Packington Water Bailiffs and PGPFF Bailiffs and other members may request proof of identity which must be supplied in the form of a signed note from PGPFF. Failure to produce such identity may mean that the Bailiff or member would require the individual to leave immediately.
15.    All fishing will be in a fair and sportsmanlike manner by rod and line. Barbless hooks will be used at all times.
16.    Members must report: any suspicious activity, intruders, unlawful acts, devices for taking fish in an unsportsmanlike manner or which are illegal to the Packington Estate and or to PGPFF immediately and if requested to join with them in proceeding against offenders.
17.    Members will not trespass outside of the boundaries of the lake and the fenced parking area, leave litter, dig for bait, light fires, break trees (save the husbandry around the parking area and over the Pool). There is no general access to areas outside of the parking area.
18.    Members will keep all gates closed and do nothing which would enable stock, poultry or any animals on the estate to escape into the Pool and car park area.
19.    Dogs are not allowed.
20.    Members will leave boats in good condition.
21.    Other than rowing, suitable low power portable private electric engines may be used.
22.    Members are responsible for bailing boats and for mooring.
23.    Fishing is from the boats provided and the dam wall.
24.    There is no safety provision or equipment provided by either Packington Estate or PGPFF. Members enter the areas, lake, and activities entirely at their own risk.  Members are responsible for themselves and guests, their own and guests equipment, for the safety and functioning of the boats, landing stages, outhouses, grounds and buildings. PGPFF draws members’ attention to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, http://www.rospa.com   and the general advice to use life jackets. Members not wearing life jackets may not be covered by their own indemnity insurance and the general cover taken out by PGPFF through Angling Trust, http://www.anglingtrust.net
25.     Members are responsible for providing their own accident and legal indemnity cover.
26.    Members must abide by the laws of the Environment Agency, particularly in the acquisition of rod licences for themselves and guests.  https://www.gov.uk/fishing-licences/when-you-need-a-licence   
27.    Any damage done must be made good.
28.    The Packington Estate and PGPFF may permanently and immediately suspend the membership of any individual not keeping to these regulations, acting in an illegal, unseemly, unsafe or unsportsmanlike way in any area of the Estate.
29.    The membership fee is for 12 months from 1st July. It is not returnable, unless there are exceptional circumstances which can be discussed.
30.    These terms and conditions can be changed by either Packington Estate or PGPFF without notice.