TWAPS FISHING CLUB - GRAVESEND - MEDWAY - KENT

 Club History

The Society was originally known as Thameside Works Angling Club and was formed by the local factory angling clubs, e.g. Bowaters, Everards, Kent Kraft, Paper Sacks, Northfleet Power Station, A E I, plus Amalgamated Works, a club formed to cater for associate members who fished the Blue Lake.

Associate members bought a two and sixpence annual fishing permit, and Blue Circle (as it was then) suggested that a properly constituted organisation be set up at a meeting held in the Blue Circle Club during 1952. Each member club was represented at committee meetings held monthly and the organisation grew from strength to strength with a membership of 750.

The Blue Lake was at that time recognised as arguably the best fishery in the South East, but on the 17th November 1973 a massive oil spill decimated the fishery making it unfishable with membership declining to about 100 members only.

Bromley Angling Club offered the use of their waters for several years until the Blue Lake recovered thus keeping the core of membership together.

The Society has over the past years had an involvement with Roman Villa, White Kemp, The Great Stour at Wye, and Horseshoe Lake at Higham.

TWAPS, Kent Fishing Club, in brief...

The Society currently controls the fishing rights at Shorne Country Park, Cobham Hall, Blue Lake at Northfleet and a stretch of the River Beult at Chainhurst, as well as belonging to the Rother Fishery Association which controls fishing on approx 7 miles of the Rother and 3 miles on the Royal Military Canal at Appledore.

Current membership is approximately 400 with no waiting list. See below for a summary of all the information published on our website.