Manager Mark Downes has once again selected a young squad to represent Drennan Team England in this year’s European Championships on the Bianca canal, Venice, Italy from 20th-21st May. Joining the squad for the first time, after two great years at Home International level, is former U23 International James Dent. The vastly experienced Alan Scotthorne […]
Mark Downes announces 2017 European Match Fishing Championships squad
Tom Pickering names his England Lions
Tom Pickering names his England Lions for the 7th FIPSed World Feeder Championships in Portugal. The Angling Trust’s Preston Innovations sponsored England Feeder team has now been selected for the FIPSed 7th World Feeder Championships in Cabecao, Portugal from 24th – 25th June 2017. The Feeder team are to remain the same as last year’s […]
England Call Up for Talented U20s Coarse Anglers
The Angling Trust is looking for talented coarse anglers who would like to apply for the England under 20s youth assessment trials. FIPSed have announced that the age categories for the youth have changed from previous years, so what was the U18s has now became the U20s category. The U20s Youth World Championships are due […]
New System for Fish O Mania XXIV Tickets – Opens January 2017
Tickets for Fish O Mania XXIV will go on sale from 30th January 2017 using a new on line booking system, making the allocation of places quicker, easier and significantly more efficient. The new system will also ensure that successful applicants can get a maximum of two tickets for the tournament. The AT have invested […]
Wayne Swinscoe wins at Evesham
Wayne Swinscoe topped the latest open on the Warwickshire Avon at Evesham with a quality double-figure bag of chub and roach. “It’s been a good few years since I fished a winter match at Evesham, but I decided to visit after hearing they’d started catching some decent weights on both bread punch and bronze maggots,” […]
Dick Clegg MBE hangs up his Angling Trust rods and reels
The Angling Trust has announced the retirement of three of its long standing volunteers from the Competitions Team – Dick Clegg, Terry Fell and Brian Hull. Team England’s Dick Clegg, the man who led England to their very first world match fishing gold medal, stood down from his role as International Event Manager on December […]
Canal Pairs Championship Dates 2017
Britain’s biggest canal angling competition, the Canal Pairs Championship, is once again being held along the nation’s waterways, with Wales, Scotland and Ireland also included alongside English canal venues. The 2016 event was a great success and proved really popular with anglers from across the country and I’m expecting 2017 event to be just […]
Fish O Mania Qualifier Dates 2017
The Angling Trust and Matchroom Sport have announced the dates for the Fish’O’Mania XXIV qualifiers and final. Viaduct Fishery in Somerset will host the first qualifier on Wednesday 8th April and the final qualifier will once again be hosted by Lindholme Lakes on Wednesday 21st June. 3,820 tickets will be available to anglers as they […]
Guru Academy duo win Pole Fishing Pairs Match
This was the first year that Gurus has has run the Guru Match Academy, so it has been great to see the youngsters who graduated from it doing so well since then! The lads who took part in the two-day event at Makins Fishery, back in the summer, picked up plenty of tips from some […]
Paul Bick wins RiverFest 2016 from Paul Downes
Paul Bick is the 2016 RiverFest champion after weighing in over 50lb in the two day event on the River Wye. In what what was a tough final for many in cold conditions, Paul had the match sewn up after the first day after weighing in 46-4-0 of barbel and chub from the bottom but […]
Dramatic Tie Breaker in World Feeder Club Championship Qualifier
A three way tie between Preston Innovations Telford, Daiwa Dorking, and Drennan Barnsley Blacks meant drama greeted the teams at the qualifier for the first ever World Feeder Club Championships. Only the top two teams would qualify to represent England and the Angling Trust in the inaugural FIPSed World Feeder Club Championships in Valencia, Spain […]
River Wye Champs 2016: Pete Goulding tons up to win: 20lb carp landed
The River Wye around Hereford fished brilliantly for the 136-peg River Wye Championships 2016 with winner Pete Goulding weighing in over 125lb. The waterway confirmed its place among the best natural match venues in the country when competitors shared more than 2,100lb. Pegged 84 in Eign A section, he used waggler and maggot tactics to take […]
Samuel Clayton wins Junior National Angling Championships 2016 on the Staffs/Worcs Canal
On Saturday 29th October twenty youngsters from across the country contested the Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Junior Angling Championship 2016 on the Staffs & Worcs Canal in Penkridge, Staffordshire. Samuel Claydon of Swineshead, Lincolnshire led the way on peg 13 with 3k 130g consisting of 2lb of gudgeon and roach plus a […]
It’s the Steve and Simon show in the Angling Trust 2016 Pairs final
Steve and Simon raise the Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Canal Pairs Championship 2016 trophy Seventy countrywide partnerships lined the towpath of the Staffs & Worcs Canal from Penkridge to Acton Trussell in Staffordshire for Saturday’s grand final of the Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Canal Pairs Championship 2016. Conditions were […]
Mark Downes wins on low and clear Warks Avon
Angling Trust RiverFest Qualifier Warwickshire Avon Match Report Warwickshire Avon at Warwick – Sunday 30th October 2016 An incredibly low and clear Warwickshire Avon made for a very fair competition for the final Riverfest qualifier of 2016. With very few bonus fish showing it was an out and out small fish match and England Team […]
