The Angling Trust’s coarse angling 2014/15 England Talent Pathway programme reached its conclusion over the weekend as 25 of the most promising young match anglers in the country gathered at Bartson Lakes for a two day event culminating in a match between Northern, Midlands and Southern Squads. Anglers had been building up to this event […]

Angling Trust’s RiverFest is back with a bang and is bigger and better than ever with four more qualifiers and a whopping prize pool of £34,000 expected to be paid out over the two day final in November. Subject to all tickets being sold, there will be 10 main prizes in the final ranging from […]

The eight teams that are to receive invites for this year’s Match Fishing Team Championship Final on Evesham’s River Avon have been confirmed. Midlands teams invited to compete include Kamasan Starlets, Shakespeare Superteam, W B Clarke and Daiwa Gordon League. The event – which forms the last day of the Evesham Angling Festival, is regarded […]

Mallory Park Fisheries will be holding the 11th annual running of the Ivan Marks Memorial Match in May. It will be, as always, open to all anglers of any standard and offers a great opportunity to ‘rub shoulders’ with star anglers from all over the country, including Full Internationals from several countries. This event WILL […]

Tunnel Barn Farm’s three-day May Bank Holiday Festival will see the winner walk away with £1,000 in readies, with big cash prizes right down to sixth place. With fishing on Top, Extension and High Pools (17 pegs on each) on May 23rd, 24th and 25th, it’s £22 to enter. which includes a £7 peg fee. […]

The Angling Trust has announced the Drennan Team England Squads for 2015. The team will compete on four fronts this year as they attempt to win gold at the World Championships and retain their European and Fish ‘O’ Mania International titles. The team will also compete in the reinstated Home International Championships which will be […]

Midlands match fishing ace Dave Harrell is touting a novel pairs idea that would see two anglers fishing from the same peg. Dave, the man behind the successful Riverfest series, believes it could encourage more pleasure anglers back onto running water. He said: “A lot of pleasure anglers don’t match fish because you are isolated […]

Former Premier League footballer Jimmy Bullard proved he’s no slouch in matches of another sort when winning the Silver Fish Festival at Devon’s Stafford Moor Fishery… an especially impressive achievement when you realise former World Match Fishing Champion Will Raison was among his rivals. Jamie totalled five points to take the trophy with relative ease, […]

The Canal & River Trust and Angling Trust are delighted to announce that the entry forms to apply for the Canal Pairs Qualifiers will be available from Monday 2nd March. This year there will be 11 qualifiers with the first one commencing on Sunday 12th April on the Loughborough Canal, and the final qualifier on […]

The most prestigious match of the weekend took place at Barston Lakes where 43 anglers fished off for the Barston Masters crown. It was a close frame with less than 2lb separating second, third and fourth spots, Jamie Harrison taking the runner’s up money thanks to a 37-7-0 bag, taken on the feeder in cold […]

Preston Innovations England World Feeder team has been selected for the FIPSed 5th World Feeder Championships in 2015. The squad will consist of brothers, Steve and Phil Ringer, Mick Vials, Adam Wakelin, Dean Barlow, Rob Wootton, and current Ultimate Barnsley Blacks team captain, Glenn Lawrence (coach), Tom Pickering (manager) and Adam Rooney (assistant). The competition will be […]

Tunnel Barn Farm has announced its schedule of Easter matches with some big events right through the long bank holiday weekend. Good Friday (April 3rd) will see anglers fishing Extension Top and New Pool, starting at 1.30pm, while Saturday’s match will be staged on Club, Canal and Jenny’s with the draw at 9am and fishing […]

The FIPSed Disabled and Veterans World Coarse Angling Championships for 2015 will be held on the river Sorraia near the village of Cabecao, Portugal on a venue well known to some of this years selected team members on 5th/6th June.   In the past this section of the river Sorraia has held the European, Junior and […]

Six new venues, twelve more places in the final, a bigger prize pot and a new ‘teams of three’ competition are the big changes to this year’s RiverFest competition. The Angling Trust has been working closely with competition creator Dave Harrell to grow the popular event still further, starting with more qualifying venues. These include, […]

The UK Angling Championship is the oldest of the ‘Big Three’ fishing tournaments, and is regarded as the most prestigious to win, going back to 1984, some of the finest match anglers in the country have won this event. This year’s dates have now been released. The venues are the same as last year, and […]