The biggest river fishing competition in the UK is back for 2016 and as the competition enters its fourth year the Angling Trust has revealed members will be able to apply for tickets through a new online booking system. RiverFest 2016 gets underway on Saturday 18th June at Mirfield on the River Calder. The twenty […]

Jamie Hughes wins top spot at the first Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier for 2016 at Tunnel Barn Farm The 150 competitors arriving for the first Fish ‘O’ Mania qualifier of 2016 were greeted by scattered snow showers and a biting North Easterly wind at Tunnel Barn Farm in Shrewley, Warwickshire on Saturday 5th March. For […]

Pic attached from the Packington Winter League, showing the top 5 after the 10th and final round. Champ Dave Elliott in the middle with his £1,000 winnings. Brief summary by fishery manager John Burchell:  It was the final match of our winter League today.we have had 59 anglers in the league + a few extras helping […]

Angling Trust’s review of the Nationals: Chance to have your say on their future structure The Angling Trust Coarse Competitions Committee is currently reviewing the National Championships in England and is offering anglers, team captains, match organisers and other interested parties the chance to help shape their future structure. Initial consultation resulted in three proposals […]

Mark Downes and Mark Addy, Drennan Team England Managers, are happy to announce the teams that will be competing in this year’s 2016 International events. World Championships 2016, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 18/19th September: The team has previously fished this venue and secured a silver medal. At present, nobody knows the species they will be fishing for, […]

The Angling Trust are pleased to announce the England teams that will be taking part in the FIPSed 9th Veterans and 18th Disabled World Coarse Championships on the Labe River, Pardubice, Czech Republic from 3rd-4th June 2016. This year sees Joe Roberts take over the reigns from Dick Clegg in his first year as England Manager of […]

The Angling Trust is pleased to announce that this years RiverFest qualifying matches will feature five new venues in a total of 24, which will see 1,440 anglers competing for a shot at the £12,000 top prize. The new venues are the Warwickshire Avon at Warwick and Stratford, the Thames at Clanfield and Culham and […]

The Angling Trust is looking for talented coarse anglers who would like to apply for the England under 18s youth assessment trials. The U18s Youth World Championships are due to be staged at Coruche, Santa Justa, in Portugal from 6th – 7h August 2016, and a team is required to represent the Angling Trust and […]

Tom Pickering is delighted to announce the England line up for the Preston Innovations Feeder Team for the 2016 FIPSed 6th Feeder World Championships to be held on the Novisad canal in Serbia from 18th – 19th June.  The venue is a cut off from the Danube river. The Feeder Team are; Tom Pickering (manager) […]

The 6th and final round of the Angling Trust Oxford winter league was fished by 6 teams of 8 on the Oxford canal from Kidlington to Wolvercote. With mild conditions but a blustery wind the canal was once again expected to provide plenty of small fish plus bonus fish for the lucky few, However some […]

Matchroom Sport and the Angling Trust are happy to announce that the Fish ‘O’ Mania XXIII 2016 online entry process for ticket applications will open on Tuesday, 5th January, 2016 at 9am. The Angling Trust website – www.anglingtrust.net – will be the only means by which anglers can enter Fish ‘O’ Mania. It is open […]

After five months and 24 qualifiers, the Angling Trust RiverFest 2015 competition reached its climax as 72 anglers descended upon Hereford to compete for the title. The prestigious final was held on Hereford & District Angling Association‘s stretch of the River Wye, with a prize pool of over £34,000 and a top prize of £12,000 […]

Pic: Barston Masters 2015 final winner Steve Beard Steve Beard, a firearms police officer from Stratford has won £2015 by winning the Barston Masters final. Steve qualified by winning his section in the August qualifier. On a horrible cold windy November day, all fish came on the method and PVA bag from peg 54, weighing […]

The date for a bigger, better, 3rd Thames TideFest Angling Championship has been announced. The prestigious event, organised by the Angling Trust and Thames Water, will be held on Sunday, September 11th, 2016 on the tidal Thames in London. The match will extend upstream to Ham, an area renowned for big bags of dace and […]

After six months and 24 qualifiers the line up for the Angling Trust’s RiverFest 2015 final has been announced. 72 anglers from across the country will descend upon Hereford to fish the two day final on the River Wye over Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th November 2015. Now in its third year the competition continues to […]