General Club Rules
1. D&DAC Cards or Day Tickets are to be carried at all times whilst at Club waters. Members not having their membership card with them will have to purchase a Day Ticket. Members Card and Day Tickets valid at Swanton Morley, all Club's other waters are members only. Night fishing is members only.
2. A maximum of 2 rods only, may be used simultaneously on Club waters. Third rod permitted at an extra £30 cost. For third rod, an extra club card and 2 EA licences are required.
3. Dogs must be kept on a short lead at all times and pooper scooped.
4. No; bait boats, boat carried depth or echo sounders, swimming, bathing, paddling, boating, sailing, surfing, skating, pollution, contamination, caravans, camping or fires allowed on or at Club waters, excepting Club working party bonfires and workboat.
5. Both live baiting, and the use of Pike gaffs, are prohibited. On D&DAC waters, pike anglers must use a minimum line strength of 12 lbs, and wire trace of at least 18 inches length.
6. No group, including Club members, may hold a match on any D&DAC water without prior written permission from the Committee.
7. Disciplinary action will be taken against any person breaching Club Rules, damaging Club or venue property, leaving litter, causing a nuisance or annoyance on or at Club waters.
8. Fish, including eels, are to be handled with care at all times, and returned alive to Club waters. The use of barbless hooks is encouraged, and only sensible use of sacks, tubes and keepnets is allowed, ie correctly pegged out in water and not overcrowded. Fish, specially larger specimens, are not to be retained in nets, sacks or tubes for long periods.
9. Members and Day Ticket members must be in possession of a current Environment Agency (EA) licence, and comply with the Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Acts and Bylaws.
10. The Club does not hold itself responsible for any accident or loss of property to any Club member whilst on Club waters or participating in Club activities or to any other person attending the same.
11. Members shall not undertake any action whatsoever that could jeopardise the Club's good name or standing.
12. Close season on all rivers 15 March to 15 June inclusive. Other landlocked waters no closed season, however nesting swans must not be disturbed.
13. Anglers must adhere to notice board instructions, and access restrictions.
14. Anglers are prohibited from crossing the Wensum at Club Fisheries, and the Fly Fishery banks are 'out-of-bounds'.
15. Excepting authorised working parties, no boats permitted on Club waters.
16. Boilies permitted in moderation. Nut baits are banned, and ground bait and pellets are to be used sparingly.
17. All members have the right to see and check the Club Card of other anglers on production of their own.
18. Children under 14 years of age must be accompanied by a responsible adult aged 18 or over.
19. On lakes, anglers shall fish from numbered peg swims only. No cutting out new swims and no occupying or fishing two swims simultaneously.
20. On lakes, floaters permitted only from swim being fished. No feeding floaters in any other swim.
21. On lakes pre-baiting is permitted in one swim only. No pre-baiting multiple swims.
22. Toilets: All individuals answering the 'call of nature' at DDAC fisheries must remove their 'faeces' from the site. Any individual leaving defecation on the ground will be banned.
23. DDAC Operates a blanket publicity ban on all specimen fish caught from its fisheries. Publicity only permitted with the Executive Committee's prior consent.
24. All anglers must not leave their swim unattended for periods of more than 3 hours.
25. All anglers must be in possession of an unhooking mat.
26. No carp to be held in keepnets.
27. Junior members under 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult member when night fishing.
28. The use of laser lights is prohibited.
29. For health and safety reasons there is to be no climbing of trees.
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