South Devon’s highly regarded coarse fishing destination, Cofton Holidays, has crowned Andy Everill as winner of its autumn Cofton Cup Fishing competition. A keen fisherman, this is Andy’s third consecutive Cofton Cup title and his fourth overall having previously won Cofton Cup II, V and VI. The multi award-winning holiday park, hosted the seventh competition […]
Andy Everill wins 2021 Cofton Cup Fishing Competition
Pike ace Gustafson on Fishing TV
Legendary English Pike angler, presenter and author, Paul Gustafson is returning to your screens with his 3 classic films about Pike Fishing. Fishing TV, a global video on demand fishing channel, has recently found and digitised the DVD’s of How to Catch Bigger Pike, How to Catch River Pike and Pike Fishing in Ireland which […]
Pictures and results from England’s successful assault on the 2021 Veterans World Match Fishing Championship in Slovenia
With an outstanding performance on day 2 of just 7 penalty points, England leap-frogged the other teams in contention to take Team Gold with 25 points in the 2021 Veterans World Match Fishing Championship on the River Sava, Slovenia. The team had two sections wins (Steve Sanders and Mark Downes) a second (Bob Nudd) and […]
Buttle’s Building Customer Relations with Catch of the Day event
Customers from Buttle’s builders’ merchants braved inclement weather conditions to ensure the 19th annual fishing tournament could go ahead at Alders Farm Fishery in Milton Keynes. Buttle’s, which has branches in Leighton Buzzard, Enfield, Kentish Town, and St Albans, first organised the tournament in 2002 to build on a shared passion for angling among staff […]
Mark Downes on England’s 2021 World Championships assualt on Italy’s tough River Mincio
England manager Mark Downes reports on his teams excellent bronze medal in the 2021 World Championships in Italy. Travel In Italy we are considered ‘Elite Athletes’, giving us an exemption from the 5-day quarantine due to competing in an international event. All proceeded with their pre-travel tests and passenger locator details, giving us a smooth […]
John Lock raises the bar in the 2021 RiverFest final on the Trent
With the River Trent running low and very clear, most of the competitors thought that this year’s RiverFest final on the River Trent at Burton Joyce could be a difficult two days. How wrong they were! After two days of hard-fought match fishing action, it needed more than 34lb to win the fifteenth prize in […]
Catch and release only angling for salmon in the Severn …
The Angling Trust has accepted the need for compulsory catch and release of salmon angling for the Severn Estuary, River Severn and its tributaries. With the introduction of a new byelaw, now approved by ministers, anglers will have to ensure “any salmon that has been taken by rod and line to be returned immediately to […]
Sensas Devizes crowned Division One National Champions on the Grand Union Canal
Division 1 National Championship 2021 Report Angling Trust Division 1 National Championships 2021 Grand Union Canal, Northampton Saturday 14th August 2021 418 fished The Angling Trusts blue riband event was fished this year on the Grand Union Canal around Northampton with 42 teams competing. In the run up to this match the canal hadn’t been […]
AT Masters Championship 2021 Report: Team Daiwa take the honours at The Glebe
Sunday 22nd August saw the Angling Trust Masters held on the Glebe. Due to conflicts with other big matches, there were only had 6 teams of 6 anglers competing. Two sections were on lake 1, with the other sections on lakes 4, 5 ,6 & 7. However, upon arrival at lake 7, the anglers spotted […]
Preston Innovations Thatchers win 2021 Feeder National on the Gloucester Canal
Feeder National 2021 Report Angling Trust Feeder National Championships 2021 Gloucester Canal Sunday 22nd August 2021 120 fished A good turnout of 20 teams made the Angling Trusts inaugural Feeder National a keenly fought contest. Overnight rain added a bit of colour to the canal between Netheridge and Saul Junction and meant the skimmers and […]
Sensas Devizes win 2021 Division One National on the Grand Union Canal
Division 1 National Championship 2021 Report Angling Trust Division 1 National Championships 2021 Grand Union Canal, Northampton Saturday 14th August 2021 418 fished The Angling Trusts blue riband event was fished this year on the Grand Union Canal around Northampton with 42 teams competing. In the run up to this match the canal hadn’t been […]
Angling Trust and Environment Agency announce £50,000 fund to help angling clubs and fisheries protect waters from invasive species and diseases
The Angling Trust and Environment Agency are delighted to announce the opening of a new round of the Angling Improvement Fund (AIF) which will target tackling biosecurity threats and invasive species management. This funding will assist fisheries and angling clubs in protecting their waters from invasive non-native species such as the killer shrimp. Bids will […]
Paul Abbott wins the 2021 Individual National Angling Championships…
Paul Abbott could hardly wait to get to his peg after discovering he had drawn the most fancied peg in the entire match length in Saturday’s Angling Trust Individual National on the Grand Union Canal between Stoke Bruerne and Yardley Gabion. The Yardley stretch has one peg that sits at the opening of Kingfisher Marina […]
Three new record British fish ratified: ide, crucian carp, black mouthed dogfish
The British Record Fish Committee met remotely via online meeting facility on 19th July 2021. Present were: Mike Heylin OBE (Chairman), Oliver Crimmen (Scientific Advisor, Natural History Museum), Nigel Hewlett (Scientific Advisor, Environment Agency), Paul Coulson (Freshwater Specialist), Will Barnard (Freshwater Specialist), Andrew Nellist (Freshwater Specialist), David Craig (Ireland representative), Dr Phill Williams (Marine Specialist), […]
Samantha Sim takes Ladies National Angling Championship 2021
Angling Trust Ladies National Report 2021 20 July 2021 Angling Trust Ladies National Championships 2021 Saturday 17th July 2021 Packington Somers, Meriden 39 fished This match was fished entirely on Molands Lake and though plenty of large carp were visible during the day very few were caught in the red hot conditions. After the draw […]
