Patience is a good thing, and of course completely for fishermen. At the Northern Dutch fly fishing association in Assen, they didn’t have much trouble with that they had to wait for a new club building for more than a year. But it is almost there now, and they are overjoyed with it.
The building is built near their trout pond, next to the Baggelhuizerplas. Exactly in the same place where they were in a dilapidated farm for decades. “Fantastic what we get back for it. And that is certainly due to the benevolence of the municipality of Assen,” says chairman Gert Blaauw of the fly fishing association.
The new construction all together costs around 240,000 euros. An amount that is coughed up by the municipality, and for which the 120 fly fishermen will tidy the rent again every month. “We of course collect a contribution, and that’s how we can pay for it. But even though there is now new construction, the price of the rent remains the same.”
The farm at Baggelhuizen 10 dates from the 1930s. Since 1984, the fly fishing association has been renting the building, which is a stone’s throw from their own trout pond. But by the municipality it was demolished. “Because of cracks in the walls it was not justified to sit there for longer. Dangerous, the municipality thought,” says Blaauw. “And because they consider fly fishing as a sport, new construction could be funded in this way.”
View the report about the new clubhouse for the fly fishermen below