Mark Pannone
Praise from Local Constabularies
Cumbria Constabulary supports properly run angling coaching and development schemes due to potential significant benefits to individual young people and communities as a divergent activity away from offending. Fishing is a very cost-effective way of contributing to Government's social policy objectives, representing good value in the context of personal and community development. Borderlines are developing strong community and schools links, using angling and the environment to tackle both criminality and social exclusion.
Mark Pannone,
Chief Inspector, Partnerships and Crime Reduction Department
Cumbria Constabulary
Borderlines has a strong focus on community interaction which uses angling to provide support and structure to young people bringing benefits to the young people and their communities.
Sergeant Rab Milligan
Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary's Community Services Unit
New Director to the Board
Salmon and Trout Association Chairman James Carr
joins Borderline's Board of
Directors
James Carr, DL, MA, FCA.
James, a chartered accountant, is currently Chairmain of the Salmon and Trout Association. He has chaired a number of public companies, is a director of Rural Regeneration Cumbria, a non-executive director and Chairman of the Cumberland Building Society and is a trustee of a number of environmental charities.
James also farms near Carlisle and is married with 2 children.
Do You Remember Your First Fish?
A little over forty years ago, my father took me on the bus to the Bristol Avon at Keynsham. After tackling up and getting the shotting right so just a small part of the tip of the porcupine quill float was visible, I impaled my first maggot on a hook. As an incentive I was to be given sixpence for every fish I caught, I swung the rig out into the stream followed by a small handful of maggots. The float slowly cocked as it swam down the current, and then the little red tip just disappeared, instinctively I lifted and found myself connected to something vibrant. It was a dace of around four ounces, and there it was, wet and cold in my hand. I had found my passion; or had it, found me? After five more, the sixpence per fish I had been given did not matter anymore, I had enough silver in my hand to last me a lifetime. Such is the power of these experiences, and I still get the same buzz today.
That was my first memories of angling… Read more of this article
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