Most matches need dozens of fish to get you over the winning line, but the world of pike fishing is a little different as one bite and one fish can secure the glory – as Trevor Avis found out in this year’s Angling Trust British Pike Championships final! A lone predator weighing 13lb 2oz was […]
Trevor Avis wins 2024 British Pike Championships with 13lb 2oz fish
MBE for England match fishing boss Mark Downes in New Year’s Honours!
Match fishing legend Mark Downes has been rewarded in the King’s New Year’s Honours list with an MBE for his services to angling, seeing the current England boss join the likes of past recipients Dick Clegg, Alan Scotthorne and Bob Nudd in receiving the honour. A part of the England men’s set up since 1975 […]
Over £800,000 made available in latest EA Fisheries Improvement Programme
Angling clubs and fisheries are to benefit from the latest round of funding from the Environment Agency’s Fisheries Improvement Programme (FIP), which has opened today (16 December). Up to £820,000 is being made available to support angling clubs, fisheries and other organisations to protect and enhance fisheries in local communities through the programme. The projects […]
Packington Somers Fishery December 15th, 2024
PACKINGTON SOMERS FISHERY Telephone: 01676 523833 MATCH RESULTS AND FISHING REPORT – WEEK ENDING 15/12/24 MATCH RESULTS STARLETS VETS (LITTLE GEARYS/SIBLINGS) 1.Dave Longford (Ridgemere AC) 36– 14 peg 5 SIBS A Carp on Bomb and Bread 2.Pete Brown (Maypole AC) 33 – 12 3.Trevor Hougham (Packington) 31 – 8 4.Chris Puffett (Packington) […]
Borders Ghillie Phil Ellis Wins 2024 Tweed Forum River Champion Award
Phil Ellis, a Scottish Borders ghillie who has expanded his role to include extensive conservation of the river environment, has been awarded the 2024 Tweed Forum River Champion Award. The prestigious annual accolade is now in its ninth year and is presented by the Borders environmental charity to an individual with an outstanding commitment to […]
Government’s Bathing Water consultation puts river fishing and fish spawning grounds at risk
The Angling Trust and Fish Legal are responding to the proposals in the current consultation on the reform of Bathing Water Regulations by DEFRA and the Welsh Government. We need anglers and angling clubs to act now to stop a massive loophole in the proposed new Bathing Water Regulations which could see canoes, kayaks, rowing […]
Anglers represented at inaugural Bass Fisheries Management Group meeting
The Angling Trust joined other bass fishery stakeholders for the first Bass Fisheries Management Group meeting in London. The group focuses on implementing the Bass Fisheries Management Plan in England and is complimented by the Wales Sea Bass Advisory Group. It is the first meeting of the Bass Management Group since the publication of the […]
Nisa Wednesday Open December 4th, 2024
MATCH RESULT/REPORT EVENT: WEDNESDAY “NISA” OPEN MATCH VENUE: LAKES TWO & FOUR Makins Fishery sponsored by Tackle Guru DATE: 4 DECEMBER 2024 RESULT (Top 8 Placings) Place Peg Angler’s Name Sponsor/Club Weight-lb/oz 1st L4 10 Tony LAMB Elephant & Castle AC 62-13 2nd A13 Andy FINDLAY Preston Innovations/Sonubaits 46-15 3rd A20 Darren HILL Daventry 32-00 […]
England’s largest fish pass has been officially opened in Nottinghamshire
The biggest fish pass in England has opened up the River Trent. The Environment Agency’s £12m flagship project in the Colwick Country Park opened on Friday 8 November 2024 by Chair of the Environment Agency, Alan Lovell. It opens up the River Trent and its tributaries for migratory fish, including salmon, trout and eels, making […]
Packington Somers Fishery Form Week Ending 17/11/24
PACKINGTON SOMERS FISHERY Telephone: 01676 523833 MATCH RESULTS AND FISHING REPORT – WEEK ENDING 17/11/24 MATCH RESULTS STARLETS VETS (GEARYS/MOLANDS/ANNIES) 1.Graham Swift (Packington) 43 – 13 peg 36 GEARYS Carp on bomb and meat 2.Colin Dunston (Lanes Bait) 37 – 14 3.Dave Hipkiss (Ridgemere AC) 37– 5 4.Brian Caddy (Packington) 28 – 3 SOLIHULL ANGLING […]
Silver for England in European Feeder Cup; Gold for Steve Ringer
The European Feeder Cup is a fledgling international event, but it is one that the Angling Trust Drennan England Feeder team dearly wanted to retain after winning last year’s inaugural event on home soil – but it was not quite to be. Fished on Belgium’s Maasplas Geistingen gravel works – location of the 2022 World […]
Angling dream fulfilled as catch of a lifetime wins Mary prestigious Malloch Trophy
All anglers dream of capturing the fish of a lifetime and to have its fulfilment acknowledged by the presentation of a prestigious trophy certainly adds to the achievement. Mary Deakin from Lower Langford, Somerset, was fishing on the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders when she captured a monstrous salmon, weighing 31 pounds. In fact, […]
Monster tope landed at Isle of Man rock mark
Congratulations to Damien Billington for landing this absolute beast of a tope from a rock mark on the Isle of Man, which was weighed at a massive 83lb 6oz – bigger than the current British record 82lb 10oz tope landed at Strumble Head in Pembrokeshire in 2022.
Golden days for England Youth teams on Serbia’s DTD Canal
The rich history of the World Championships is strewn with memorable matches, great comebacks and unlikely winners, but it will never has witnessed what unfolded in the FIPSed Youth event on Serbia’s DTD Canal this month! Blighted by thick floating duckweed throughout the practice week, organisers took the unprecedented measure of cancelling the second day […]
Fish O Mania comment on the first re-weigh in it’s 31 year history….
FishOMania is in its 31st year is Sky Sports’ longest-running, continuous sporting event with a following of anglers and non-anglers alike watching the drama unfold live. A formal request for a re-weigh came from one of the anglers in the top three and his bankrunner at the close of the FishOMania 2024 final at Westwood […]
