Picture: Qualifiers for Boddington Final The Angling Trust and Canal and River Trust Stillwater Championships made its way once more to the prolific Boddington Reservoir. Strong winds and heavy rains greeted the 31 hardened anglers that had made their way from around the country to the Daventry fishery. Outright winner on the day was Mark […]
Stillwater Champs: Mark Morris wins at Boddington
Fisheries Enforcement Support Service and UK National Wildlife Crime Unit sign Information Sharing Agreement
Pic: Helen Bulmer of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit and Fisheries Enforcement Support Service Intelligence Manager Gary Thomas, with the newly signed Intelligence Sharing Agreement The Angling Trust has signed an important Information Sharing Agreement with the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, setting out the framework and protocols for the sharing of information and […]
Top of the Billing! Harry takes Veterans Match Fishing National
Veterans National Match Fishing Championships 2017 Partridge Lakes Left: Winner, Harry Billings. Right: Second, Danny Sixsmith The Angling Trust’s Veteran National took place at the ever popular Partridge Lakes, where 147 of our hardy angling veterans braved some appalling weather; strong winds and rain hampered tackle presentation and left the fish reluctant to feed. […]
Brit’s golden mahseer smashed IGFA all-tackle world record
Greg Iszatt’s magnificent 66lb golden mahseer, caught last month from the Mahakali River in India, looks set to be accepted as the new IGFA world record for the species. The Brit was fishing the fast-moving river using trout for bait, and needed 25 minutes to land the mighty fish. Once subdued, the fish was quickly documented, weighed […]
Narrowboat mackerel sets new junior world record
South African angler Tristan Schrieber – age 16 – caught this 35.8 kg (78 lb 14 oz) narrowbarred mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) on May 5th which looks set to become the new Male Junior world record. Schrieber was fishing out of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa when the massive mackerel hit the live maasbanker (goggle eye/jack mackerel) he […]
Silver for England’s shore fishing juniors in France; Ireland take silver in Youth category
World Shore Fishing Championships 2017 The 26th FIPS-M World Youth and Junior Shore Angling Championships were held in Ambleteuse, France from the 15th to 22nd July 2017 and Tronixpro Team England Juniors returned with a silver medal from the team category. The England teams arrived prior to the start of competition to practice on the […]
Former Fisheries Minister Backs Angling Trust Campaign for Sustainable Fisheries Post-Brexit
Pic: Charter boats, which take recreational anglers out to sea to fish for offshore species, are a key part of coastal communities and could flourish with better sea fisheries management. Photo: Tim Macpherson In a new paper on UK sea fisheries post-Brexit the Angling Trust calls on the Government to turn Britain into a world leader in […]
Whittle Victorious on Bristol Avon
Pic: Winner Hadrian Whittle (Centre) with fellow qualifiers Kevin Hall (Left) and Mark Downes (Right) (hi res image available)A few inches of extra water and more pace in the river had local anglers predicting big weights of bream before the draw at the latest RiverFest Qualifier at Newbridge. The match winner at peg 50 was Ross on […]
Angling Trust reacts to changes to FIPS-ed World Club Championships Qualifier
Caption: Daiwa Dorking celebrate after winning the World Club Champs on the Ostellato Canal. Following the news that the Angling Trust has reintroduced a qualifier to identify and select a team to represent England in the FIPS-ed Coarse Angling World Championship for Clubs (float), the Angling Trust would like to make a full and […]
Anglian Water trout news July 25th: Grafham Water in great summer form
• Fantastic summer sport Grafham rod average 5.3 6lb Rainbow at Ravensthorpe Plenty of big Pike at Pitsford • Summer offers across all of our trout fisheries Extra senior day launching this summer! Great news for our senior anglers, in addition to our popular ‘Senior Tuesday’ we are now adding a ‘Senior Thursday’ for the […]
Kevin Johnson wins the 2017 Lough Muckno Festival
Sublime last day performance sees Johnson edge out all challengers on Lough Muckno July festival 2017. The final day on the Lough Muckno July festival saw the closest leaderboard witnessed in years with just grammes separating the top 4 and today’s showdown as expected did not disappoint. That Kevin Johnson would continue his charge was […]
Two big brown trout on the troll from Ireland’s Lough Ree
Athlone angler had a day to remember fishing for the big, wild brown trout of Lough Ree, boating two in double figures including this 17lb 2oz brute. Earlier in the day while trolling, Stephen, who no stranger to catching them, boated a 13-pounder. Both cracking fish were released. The Irish Fisheries Board is currenlty promoting its […]
Roger Wakenshaw wins Ivan Marks Memorial 2017
Ivan Marks memorial match 2017 Date: 16th July 2017 Venue: River Witham Kirkstead 42 fished The River Witham was hard going for many and the bream shoals were noticeable by their absence. However, there were small fish in abundance for those looking for bites and several nets of 1-3lb of silverfish were banked. The winner […]
Campsmount Academy retain Match Fishing Schools National at Hallcroft Fishery
The Angling Trust Schools National made its way to the wonderful Hallcroft fisheries in Retford for its inaugural run out and once more was generously sponsored by Daiwa. Although forecast, the heavy rain and thunderstorms abated and with plenty of room across Moat, Reed and Canal pools the young anglers took the opportunity to bag […]
Blythe Waters Stillwater Champs Qualifier: Richard Bedder tops the field
Pic: Eight out of the ten qualifiers (Mick Bull and David Markham not present (hi-res image available) Richard ‘Bedder’ than the rest at Blythe The fourth qualifier for the AT & CRT Stillwater Championships was held in near perfect conditions at Blythe Waters Fishery. With a light wind and overcast conditions the 18 anglers that […]
