Evesham Festival Qualifying Match Report Wychavon Championship Qualifier Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 78 Fished   1 Dan Varney (Drennan) 11-5-0 (peg 36) 2 Owen Robinson (Evesham Youth) 5-13-0 (peg 1) 3 Ian Shepherd (Daiwa Gordon League) 5-10-0 (peg 30) 4 Ray South (Ferrymen) 5-6-0 (peg 66) 5 Tony Bench (Shakespeare Superteam) 4-13-0 (peg 26) […]

With bright sunshine and a low clear river, the first Angling Trust RiverFest qualifier of the season held on Sunday 22nd June was fished in far from ideal conditions, but the River Calder at Mirfield didn’t disappoint as 17 of the 60 anglers returned double figure weights. The match was won by Drennan Barnsley Blacks […]

The Barston Festival this week produced its biggest weights ever, with over 80lb of fish the average per angler, and mostly bream weights too. Day one was won by event organiser Craig Casemore with 161lb of big carp from peg 17. Craig caught on the method at 70 yards, with fish up to 18lb. Second […]

Evesham Festival Qualifying Match Report. Wychavon Championship Qualifer Evesham Town & Ferry Waters 68 Fished. Result: 1 Paul Glenfield (Drennan Oxford) 17-2-0 (peg 1) 2 Paul Johnson 14-6-0 (peg 87) 3 Darren Davies (Drennan) 12-7-0 (peg 52) 4 Tony Davis (Gloucester Angling Centre) 12-3-0 (peg 35) 5 Rich Reynolds (Maver Bait-Tech) 9-11-0 (peg 25) 6 […]

Woodland Lakes Fishery at Thirsk, North Yorkshire welcomed anglers from across the country for this, the penultimate Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier of 2014.  It was this venues first time with the new larger 150 peg format and was still fished across the 5 normal match lakes as used over previous years.  It was felt by […]

The Angling Trust is pleased to announce that the second RiverFest competition, which gets underway on the River Calder on Sunday 22nd June, is a complete sellout. The majority of the 1,200 tickets, which went on sale in April, were sold within two weeks and most of the 20 venues being used for the qualifiers […]

Woodlands View Fishery in the West Midlands held the 14th Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier  on Wednesday 11th June with the anglers a bit  apprehensive about how it would fish especially considering the very large field of almost 170. Although the first half of the match proved very difficult for many, things settled later on producing […]

Twenty three anglers travelled far and wide to fish this year’s Angling Trust National Championships for Anglers with Disabilities at the picturesque Preston Innovations Boldings Pools Fishery near Bridgnorth on Sunday 8th June.  The lake fished a lot harder than for the Ladies National Championship on the previous day.  And so, as often happens under […]

This year’s Angling Trust Ladies National Championship was fished at Preston Innovations Boldings Fishery on Saturday 7th June using three of their pools, Chestnut, Sycamore and Willow with 41 ladies taking part.  The first half of the match took place in heavy rain, but for most anglers the fish responded to their baits.  Once the […]

The Angling Trust is to launch its first ever International Angling Academy on the Middle Level Drain, Kings Lynn with the intention of giving aspiring World Championship anglers a formative look at the FIPSed international scene. The event takes place on Sunday June 29th. The idea is the brainchild of Dick Clegg, OBE who has […]

Faced with the prospect of violent thunderstorms and frequent heavy showers throughout the day the anglers were pretty apprehensive as they came to the draw for this latest Angling Trust & Canal & River Trust Stillwater Championship qualifier at Earlswood Lakes, Earlswood, Solihull on Saturday 7th June.  Despite long periods of rain during the morning […]

Eleven lakes were in use again this year on the 13th Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier held at the picturesque and excellent Partridge Lakes Fishery near Warrington on Saturday 31st May 2014, but due to an influx of cold rain water at the beginning of the week, weights were not expected to be high.  This influx […]

The festival was borne from the anglers competing in the World Pairs Angling Championship which highlighted the good fishing in the area has been resurrected to promote angling tourism in this part of County Leitrim.   The Ballinamore Angling & Tourism Association is keen to intereact with the anglers once again and get them returning […]

Heavy overnight rain and again just prior to the Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier held at Colemans Cottage Fishery, Essex on Saturday 24th May played  a part in slowing down the catch rates on the day, with anglers also having to put up with a cold wind and odd showers during the match. Miracle Baits sponsored […]

This was the 10th consecutive year of this prestigious angling event whereby the angler with the highest weight of either of the two days receives the Ivan Marks Memorial Trophy from Linda Marks.  Scorching temperatures greeted the 80 competitors on Day 1 and expectations were mixed. The fish had started to spawn on Glebe Pool […]