England international match angler Des Shipp has been crowned the 2014 Wychavon Champion, after a close fought battle on Evesham’s River Avon. The Preston Innovations-backed ace, and England international, picked up the £2,000 winners cheque, after weighing in 8-1-0 from end peg one on the Crown Meadow. A delighted Des explained: “I am over the […]

Evesham Veterans Championship Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 72 Fished.   1 Denis White (Maver) 8-13-0 (peg 30) 2 Clive Roberts (Cardiff Nomads) 8-12-0 (peg 13) 3 Dave Howl (peg 8) 8-0-0 4 Keith Kyte (peg 16) 6-15-0 5 Peter Dent (peg 15) 6-12-0 Qualifier: Clive Roberts In what must rank as one of the […]

This year’s Evesham Festival is set to be bigger, better and more exciting than ever before, making it a must-visit attraction for anyone with even the faintest interest in angling. Taking place this bank holiday weekend (23rd, 24th and 25th August), the show will see a host of angling’s biggest names go into battle on […]

Chris Vandervleit used a tactic more associated with winter fishing – called ‘fishing the teabag’- to win the Maver Match This Qualifier at Barston Lakes. The method involves using a small PVA bag of feed – usually pellets – which dissolves once in the water leaving a small pile of bait next to your hook […]

The ninth RiverFest Qualifier for 2014 took place on the River Yare at Langley in Norfolk with 55 anglers competing. With north-westerly gale force winds gusting to 50 miles an hour, the anglers had difficult conditions to contend with resulting in weights being much reduced than the norm. Although renowned for big bream bags the […]

Sunday 17th August 2014 Evesham Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 75 Fished.   1 Tony Bench (Shakespeare Superteam) 13-0-0 (peg 2) 2 Michael Buchwalder (Preston Innovations/ Sonubaits) 8-12-0 3 Paul Priday (Tubertini Ludlow) 8-3-0 (peg 26) 4 Martyn Howard (Daiwa Gordon League) 8-2-0 (peg 6) 5 Darren Cox (Garbolino) 6-10-0 (peg 25) 5 […]

Saturday 16th August 2014 Wychavon Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 78 Fished. 1 Ian Sutherland (Land Rover) 13-8-0 (peg 83) 2 Joe Oakes (Middy) 12-3-0 (peg 15) 3 Tony Skinner (Shakespeare Superteam) 11-13-0 (peg 85) 4 Steve Townsend (Drennan) 11-9-0 (peg 13) 5 Tony Marshall (Shakespeare Superteam) 10-5-0 (peg 86)   Qualifiers: Steve […]

The Angling Trust has announced that Barnsley Blacks’ team member Frankie Gianoncelli is to move to the Competitions team within the Angling Trust. After a hugely successful year as Regional Officer for Yorkshire and Humber, Frankie will take up the new role of Talent & Competitions Officer in October 2014. The new role will see […]

ANGLING TRUST STILLWATER TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 Saturday saw 18 teams line up for the second Stillwater Team Championships sponsored by Garbolino/Lindholme Fishery.  There were five sections each on Cudmore and Heronbrook fisheries. At the draw captains were slightly apprehensive about how either venue would fish since there had been an overnight drop in temperature down […]

Remnants of  Hurricane Bertha hitting the UK with torrential rain backed by 40 mph wind could not dampen the enthusiasm of the 57 anglers that lined the banks of the River Soar at Sutton Bonnington for the eighth Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier of the year, held on Sunday 10th August. On a nicely rising river […]

Eighty fished the sell out 2014 Barston Bowl, which produced two ton up weights at the in form Solihull fishery. The match had a later draw time of 11am with fishing 1pm to 6pm and this improved the fishing. Mick Bull was the first to put a big weight on the scales, and everyone assumed […]

The Angling Trusts Veterans and Disabled teams had mixed success in the 2014 7th FIPSed  World Angling Championships fished on the Tevere River in Rome from 8th – 9th August. The Angling Trust England Veterans team had fished a fantastic match losing to the host nation by only 2 points in the torrid heat of […]

Forty two teams (420 competitors) fished the River Trent on various sections of the river from the non-tidal section downstream of Nottingham to the tidal section upstream of Torksey in the Angling Trust Division 1 National Championship on Saturday 9th August 2014. Weather conditions were far from ideal, with bright sunshine and blustery winds generally […]

Conditions were nigh on perfect for the competitors in the 2014 Angling Trust Veterans National Championship held at the prolific Woodlands View Fishery at Hadley on Wednesday 30th July with 154 competitors competing .  Warm, mainly overcast and a light breeze led to a string of 100 lb plus weights as the carp feed freely.  […]

Drennan England U23s and Sensas England U18s representing their sponsors and the Angling Trust competed on the Nord Willan canal, Holland in the FIPSed World Angling Coarse Championships from 25th – 26th July.  It soon became apparent though that the match length was fished as totally different venues, with the U18s stretch holding far more […]