Gianoncelli & Bowman win first round of PF Pairs. Frankie Gianoncelli and his partner on the day, Ian Bowman have won the first round of the Preston Innovations backed Pole Fishing pairs league at Barston Lakes and Packington Somers Fishery near Solihull. Taking place at four of the UK’s best commercial fisheries, the Preston Innovations […]

With the Warwickshire Avon at Eckington carrying around a foot of extra water and a good colour, big bream weights were expected at the Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier on Saturday 18th October.   The Eckington Angling Club waters didn’t fail to deliver as 56 anglers put a total of 960 lbs on the scales with […]

Jamie Wilde is £25,000 better off having won the 2014 Parkdean Masters final at White Acres Fishery. However, it was as very close run thing with his 46-5-0 weight from unfancied peg 13 less than 3lb ahead of second placed Andy Geldart (43-11-0), with Geoff Vallance also close, weighing in 43-3-0. It was an all […]

Tunnel Barn Farm Fishery is creating a new fishing league for match anglers to be fished from 1st November right through to the 1st October 2015. Points will be awarded to open matches in the week and at weekends where there are 10 anglers or more, with the top 32 anglers at the end going […]

The 16th Angling Trust RiverFest 2014 qualifier took place on a very low and clear River Thames at Medley on Saturday 4th October, and with weather conditions also far from ideal, it was a tough match for many of the competitors. The top weight of 16-13-0 fell to Angling Trust Ambassador Dave Harrell who came […]

A wonderful first TideFest was held on the tidal Thames on Sunday September 28 at Kew Bridge, Isleworth, Chiswick and in the Wandle Valley on Sunday to commemorate World Rivers Day. Visitors enjoyed a host of activities that were organised place along the Thames Tideway  including paddle boarding, sailing, kayaking, angling, foreshore exploration, river dipping, […]

Dick Clegg, OBE, International Coarse Angling Manager of the Angling Trust  will be holding a Veterans International assessment day on the Aire and Calder Canal on Sunday 26th October this year.  The intention is to select a squad of anglers to compete in Portugal on the river Sorria next June on a venue that has […]

The River Trent at Burton on Trent was not in the best of conditions for the Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier held on Sunday 28th September with very low, gin clear and not much flow, but surprisingly it still produced a good contest with 60 competitors competing. The winner on the day was Robbie Quinn fishing […]

Jamie Hughes is the new Midlands Match Angler of the Year after winning the annual event at Solihull’s Barston Lakes. The event sees competitors fish two three hour matches in the same day, with the first match on the feeder and the second on the pole. Jamie weighed in 28lb of F1s in the morning […]

The Angling Trust will be holding a Ladies International assessment day on the Aire and Calder canal on Sunday 26th October this year, and the England management team of  Dave Brooks and Joe Roberts will be looking to select a squad of anglers to compete in the 22nd  FIPSed Ladies World Angling Championship in Belgium […]

2014 Lakelands and Inland Waterways World Pairs Angling Championships. 8th to 12th September, 138 fished English pairing Adam Wakelin and Rob Wootton broke the Irish stranglehold on the third edition of the Lakelands and Inland Waterways World Pairs Angling Championships, fished on venues throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The duo from the […]

Thirty one teams (310 competitors) battled it out on a tough Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Wigan in the Angling Trust Division 2 National Championship on Saturday 13th September.  Red hot favourites Wigan Match Group fishing on their local water proved difficult to beat to amass a fantastic total of 273 points to become Division […]

Report courtesy of Drennan International The Netherlands have won World Championship gold in Croatia after an impressive two-day per­form­ance on an extremely chal­len­ging venue. Heavy rain had seen the already powerful flowing venue rise around 2.5 metres in just a few days. The teams that fared the best got to grips with these demanding con­di­tions […]

The Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier on the Great Ouse took place at Littleport on Sunday 7th September with three more qualifier winners booking their places through to the grand final on 15th/16th November on the River Wye, Hereford. With only securing his ticket just two days before the qualifier Graham Dack’s luck was in by […]

The latest Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Stillwater Championship qualifier was held at Blythe Waters on Wednesday 10th September 2014. 30 competitors of the 35 that were booked in turned up on the day. The weather was dry, bright and sunny, with little wind. After the previous round at Blythe the fishing would […]