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 […]

Whittle books his RiverFest grand final place Match Report Sunday 27th July 2014  – River Trent (60 Fished) The tidal Trent has been fishing well this year but with the long spell of dry weather the skimmers and bream that usually make up the framing weights have been somewhat elusive. This opens the match up […]

The 4th Annual Merseyside County Championship took place on Saturday 26th of July at Newbridge Farm near Kirby, Merseyside. Two teams entered in what would be a straight angler to angler fight to the finish. Last year’s winners Matrix Tameside would fish against Lymm Angling Club. The day itself saw high temperatures and high pressure, […]

Sunday 27th July Wychavon Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 80 Fished.   Result:   1 Jon Arthur (Drennan International) 11-9-0 (peg 7) 2 Dave Allsop 8-13-0 (peg 74) 3 Nigel Bull (Shakespeare Superteam) 8-1-0 (peg 11) 4 John Freeborn (Sensas North) 7-6-0 (peg 40) 5 Dave Harris (Barford DAA) 7-2-0 (peg 2)   […]

The Angling Trust’s Preston Innovations sponsored England Feeder team shattered the opposition in the 4th FIPSed World Feeder Championships from 19th – 20th July on the fantastic Inniscarra Lake near Cork in Southern Ireland.  Tom Pickering’ s men had spent a great deal of time travelling and practising on the venue, and all their efforts […]

The Angling Trust has taken its first steps to safeguard the future of the Winter League. The aim is to improve satisfaction among existing Winter League anglers and attempt to introduce new teams and anglers to the league.  The changes have been introduced following a survey conducted by the Angling Trust to gather the thoughts […]

Sunny conditions greeted the competitors who took part in the Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier on the River Trent at Newark on Saturday 19th July. The winner on the day and the first competitor from this qualifier to go through to the RiverFest final on 15th/16th November was Paul Kozyra from York, who weighed in 41 […]

Thirty two anglers fished the Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Stillwater qualifier at Boddington Reservoir on 16th July in hot, and still conditions. The early pegs proved difficult to tempt the carp to feed, with flat calm water. The later pegs had more ripple on the water, and carp soon came to method […]

Saturday 19th July 2014 Wychavon Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 68 fished.   Result: 1 Rich Reynolds (Maver Bait-Tech) 14-8-0 (peg 36) 2 Bradley Proctor (MAS) 14-4-0 (peg 2) 3 Joe Oakes (Middy) 12-5-0 (peg 67) 4 Roger Marlow (Drennan Leicester) 10-5-0 (peg 78) 5 Jim Smith (Pershore Match Group) 10-3-0 (peg 76) […]

Sunday 20/07/2014 Match Fishing Team Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 65 fished.   Individuals: 1 Ant King (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 9-12-0 (peg 1) 2 Alan Stephens (Alcester Sports) 7-7-0 (peg 41) 3 Ed Warren (Kamasan Starlets) 7-4-0 (peg 52) 4 Tom Potter (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 7-0-0 (peg 36) 5 Jim Brockie (Alcester Sports) […]

England have another team and individual international gold medal to their name after fairly blitzing the 2014 World Feeder Champs in a one sided event on Ireland’s Inniscarra Reservoir. England won both days easily, and posted the highest overall team weight by some 27kg, coming home by a clear 36 points on 26pts – in […]

England have taken a commanding lead after the first day of the 2014 World Feeder Fishing Championships on Inniscara Reservoir in Ireland… England’s Mick Vials is second, Steve Ringer fourth and Phil Ringer seventh as England lead by 12 points with home nation Ireland second, just ahead of Holland. Ireland’s Richard Pratt leads the individual […]

Wednesday 16th July Evesham Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 57 Fished.   1 Rob South (Sensas WB Clarke) 12-1-0 (peg 43) 2 Pete Jayes (Quorn VDE) 7-13-0 (peg 15) 3 Alan Stephens (Evesham DAA) 6-14-0 (peg 65) =  Adrian Higginbottom (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 6-14-0 (peg 82) 5 Tom Potter (Matrix Dynamite Trentmen) 6-8-0 […]