I am not sure exactly how close some of the venues in Italy were. It also included beach and boat sea fishing so that is included in my answer.

So the answer to your question is the Rivers Welland and Witham. Both have held matches well over 200 angers on a regular basis not so many years ago. They would both need a lot of work weed and swim clearing but where there was a will etc….

Both rivers also have some fly trout fishing on their upper parts. There is Rutland water for fly fishing and if that was netted for coarse fish and the stock transferred to Witham and Welland they would provide some superb sport!

The beaches around Chapel Point, Skegness, are well known for beach fishing and there is the port of Grimsby where there must be some charter boats. The Humber Estuary could also provide the beach sport.

The North Bank of the Nene maybe – it’s fishing well at the moment – but it’s mainly bream skimmers and hybrids and those are fish that won’t handle seven consecutive days of pressure.
The world champs venues that get better as more food goes in are usually the ones with carp in them…

Deffo the Manchester Ship Canal,

It is heaving with fish ……. dont tell anyone , its a secret ! 😉

How about the Lanky Dodge?

13 Mtr pole restriction wouldn’t be a problem!!!

:rolleyes:

pierrepont and/or the surrounding river trent, i seem to remember reading about another rowing course in kent somewhere i think that would be ok.

decent commercial lakes complex with sections split between lakes

just shows how the Europeans are catching up with us ,our own team competitions are spiraling out of control with more and more anglers turning to individual competitions .if we are not careful our English team standing in the world champs will falter .OK the Italians were on home soil perhaps a big advantage but they blitz it
like the topic suggests were in the country could you find a venue like that with carp as well as bream,roach and the others all swimming together
the writing has been on the wall for the past few years and if we are not careful we will loose our edge 😉
holme pierrepont would be the ideal venue but would need hundreds and thousands of pounds spending on sorting the place out ,you could stock the right fish in it which we should of done years ago instead of letting it go to rack and ruin
i know the last world champs there wasn’t that good but didn’t we still win it 😉

Jubilee River between Maidenhead and Windsor. Uniform width and depth, flow can be altered as required. Great for spectators. 2 massive hotels right on Junction 6 of the M4.

Only 20 miles from London and 60 miles from the South Coast. Plenty of decent fly-fishing venues within travelling distance as well. Disableds could be held on the rowing trench at Dorney which is just behind the Jubilee and has excellent access and viewing facilities [it’s being used for the Olympics next year].

This was suggested to the NFA about 10 years ago but the high-ranking person who visited the sites with me [no longer in that position] told me that this country would never host a World Champs in the South whilst Dick Clegg was still involved !

A bit surprised Keith has not come in on this one yet. We have covered this before and certainly the Nene was a viable option. It makes sense to work with the rowers as they win a few medals at least, and a rowing course would make a super venue.
I recall Home Pierpoint is now too small to hold the event but understand a larger course was available in the South. I think its connected with Eton college and is where the olympic rowing will take place next year.
The bottom line is that there has to be the will to make this happen. No one would wish a repeat of the 1993 H Pierpoint event which we did win but the event was a low weight affair where perch dominated the low scores (as the bream had all been eaten by you know what).
Our national body is just not strong enough as too few anglers are prepared to pay for it so I fear the status quo will prevail and no WC will be held here for many years, if ever.

i know quite a few people ho would like to do the team fishing thing but the local teams just dont want to know even if you put the time in practising,they close ranks and drop you even though youve been producing the goods.
have thought about starting a team but wouldnt know where to start?

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just shows how the Europeans are catching up with us ,our own team competitions are spiraling out of control with more and more anglers turning to individual competitions .if we are not careful our English team standing in the world champs will falter .OK the Italians were on home soil perhaps a big advantage but they blitz it
like the topic suggests were in the country could you find a venue like that with carp as well as bream,roach and the others all swimming together
the writing has been on the wall for the past few years and if we are not careful we will loose our edge 😉
holme pierrepont would be the ideal venue but would need hundreds and thousands of pounds spending on sorting the place out ,you could stock the right fish in it which we should of done years ago instead of letting it go to rack and ruin
i know the last world champs there wasn’t that good but didn’t we still win it 😉

is’nt holme pierrpont the home of the angling trust :rolleyes: :rolleyes: begs belief

there must be some big reservoirs in the UK? how many pegs is a world champs?

another venue would be rutland water again the right size loads of room for all competitions it would again need loads of money throwing at it plus permission as its a trout fishery :rolleyes: :rolleyes: but the money it would make to the local economy would be worth it
i took the kids around it on there bikes the other week its full of silverfish 😮 its a long shot i know but from a spectators view you’d be able to see everything

I would like to see a single big event pulled off first, like an EC or a WC.

The traces from Holme Pierrepont and Trent aren’t really promising.

I saw on the east mids news last night that Nottingham Council who own Holme Pierrepoint were asking for a major investment from somewhere to develop the sports side of things which I imagine would involve angling .
Not to take over but work alongside them in a partnership. I didn’t see the entire feature but it was for there and Sherwood Forest.

Sure he doesn’t mean “where in england could you have a water closet”?

you dont back the AT — so you cant have the WC,,,,,

it is not (just) about venues

in 2000 on the Trent it was 1 steward pr 2 anglers in many areas, not the required 1 steward pr 1 angler… this really was a sign of the lack of backing amongst anglers that the event had…

To organize a succesfull WC you need a really strong organization behind it (and money), and you dont have that in the UK… and by the look of things this is not about to change any time soon…

ask not what the AT can do for you, but what you can do for the AT… and btw you are the AT… 😀 (but anglers will never learn)

I come from a place that will never ever ever host a wc or any thing like it, for very much the same reasons… 😡