The Angling Trust Masters 2015 is a prestigious Team event staged at Mallory Parks Fisheries complex at Peckleton Leicester. This year 17 teams representing various fishing companies put on a great display for their respected sponsors on Saturday 15th August. Although the complex had been fishing brilliantly everyone knew that after the excessive rainfall and […]

After eight successful years as manager of the Angling Trust Veterans International team Dick Clegg OBE International Events Manager has decided to step down and has elected Joe Roberts to take over his role. Dick said, “The past 8 years have been really exciting for me and as I was the one to push for this […]

The ninth RiverFest Qualifier for 2015 took place on the River Yare at Langley Norfolk on Sunday 16th August with 59 anglers competing. With a bigger than normal high tide forecast colouring the river up the main target species for the day was bream and skimmers. Overall winner on the day was Steve Clark (Maver […]

Mick Bull set a stunning new match record at Barston Lakes with over 240lb in the Barston Bowl 2015. Fishing off end peg 124, Mick caught one fish long in the first hour while feeding 8mm pellets on his 25m line, and when he chucked the Method feeder over it after an hour he didn’t stop catching […]

Sensas Team England U18’s & Drennan U23’s once again took the World Championships by storm as they returned from Serbia with team gold and bronze medals while England’s George Organ took individual bronze medal in the U18 category. 16 nations descended on the Smederevo Steelworks Canal in Serbia over the 7th & 8th August to […]

Daiwa Dorking could hardly have been more impressive in the weekend’s Division One National winning by over 50 points from Maver Image in second and Barnsley and District in third. Dorking, including England regulars Will Raison and Des Shipp, totalled 354 points, exactly 56 clear of Maver Image in the silver medal position. Full report […]

Essex match angler Ross Harrold has set a new venue record at prolific Monk Lakes in Kent with a massive 475lb haul. The Marden water has seen plenty of 200lb plus bags and even some 300lb+ weights this year, but Ross obliterated all of them in the six-hour event, ending up with ten keepnets in […]

Evesham Super Youth Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 62 Fished. 1 Gary Seadon (Evesham) 12-7-0 (peg 16) 2 James Wilson (Maver Midlands) 11-2-0 (peg 15) 3 Liam Dennick (Evesham Youth)7-6-0 (peg 32) 4 Marina Sylvester 6-12-0 (peg 58) This qualifier is a new concept, which sees one angler Under 22, and one angler over […]

Championship An unseasonal cool breeze had most of the 157 competitors reaching for their coats for the Angling Trust Veterans National Championship held on Wednesday 29th July 2015, but at least the fish hotted things up for most at the prolific Makins Fishery, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. With the competitors spread across all 3 phases it was […]

Pic: Joe Oakes with his 11lb 6oz barbel. Evesham Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 50 fished 1 Tony Taylor 19-4-0 (peg 10) 2 Trevor Chalk (Sensas WB Clarke) 15-8-0 (peg 35) 3 Joe Oakes (Middy) 14-6-0 (peg 31) 4 Ian Shepherd (Daiwa Gordon League) 12-9-0 (peg 30) 5 Simon Smith 6-14-0 (peg 8) […]

The latest qualifier for the Angling Trust’s RiverFest competition took place on the River Trent at Holme Marsh on Saturday 25th July 2015. This is a new stretch for the competition, and promised some bumper sport from the resident bream shoals… and they didn’t disappoint! All the talk at the draw was the famous Weirfield […]

NCFFI ALL IRELAND CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 The town of Killeshandra in the heart of the Cavan lakelands once again hosted Ireland’s biggest and longest running one-day coarse angling event. The NCFFI’s All Ireland Senior Mens and Ladies Championship this year attracted 110 anglers from across Ireland and the UK to take part. Local venues fished included […]

Fish O Mania will be back in 2016 with a new look and promises to be bigger and better than ever following the news that Matchroom Sport & Angling Trust are to introduce a number of changes to the format and the prize structure. Victory in the final of Fish O Mania XXIII will net […]

A tale of two halves was the story of the day at the Angling Trust and Canal and River Trust Stillwater Championship qualifier held at Earlswood Lakes, Solihull on Saturday 25th July 2015, with one side of Engine pool producing a 72.40 kilo catch with back up weights, and the anglers facing them on the […]

Evesham Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 65 Fished. 1 Ian Shepherd (Daiwa Gordon League) 10-13-0 (peg 42) 2 Steve Ashmore (Sensas WB Clarke) 6-10-0 (peg 56) 3 Joe Oakes (Middy) 5-8-0 (peg 36) 4 Kevin Ellaby (Sensas Cardiff Nomads) 5-0-0 (peg 85) 5 Pete Morris (Sensas WB Clarke) 4-10-0 (peg 86) Qualifiers: Steve […]