FIPSed Carp Fishing World Championship, Pietrafitta, Italy 24-27th September 2014 Match Report by Ian Huntington, Korda Carp Team Manager The 16th FIPSed World Carp Angling Championship took place from 24th – 27th September at Lake Pietrafitta, situated in the Umbria region of central Italy. 24 Nations took from all over the world with the event […]
England 4th as Croatia win gold at World Carp Champs
Angling Trust Bangs the Fishing Drum at Party Conferences
Senior Angling Trust staff are busy doing the rounds of party political conferences to make sure that the voice of angling is communicated right to the top of the British political system. The Trust has jointly organised, with the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), three ‘rural receptions’ at the Conservative party conference in […]
Bream win Tidefest 2014
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, […]
Want to fish for England Vets
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 […]
Stick float wins Riverfest qualifier on the River Trent
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 wins Midlands Match Angler of the Year at Barston Lakes
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 […]
BT’s Fishing TV Show To Start Next Week
BT Sport’s new angling show, produced by Fishing TV, will broadcast for the first time on the 25th September at 7pm on BT Sport 2. The first of the eight-part series includes carp angler Ian “Chilly” Chillcott and Game Fisher’s Diary presenter Rae Borras as they go fishing for carp at Hollybush Lake, as well […]
England call up for Ladies International Assessment Day
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 […]
Scotland appoints ‘canalside ranger’ to promote angling
Scotland’s first Canalside Ranger has taken to the towpaths and waters of the Lowland Canals in a bid to reel in more anglers and improve the experience of visitors to the waterways. Appointed by Scottish Canals and supported by the Scottish Federation for Coarse Angling and Marine Scotland, the pilot project will see the ranger […]
Wakelin and Wootton win the 2014 World Pairs in Ireland
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 […]
Wigan Match Group win Division 2 National Championship 2014
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 […]
Holland win 2014 World Coarse Fishing Championships
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 […]
Groups Welcome Go Ahead for Thames Tideway Supersewer
The Angling Trust, the Salmon and Trout Association and the Thames Anglers Conservancy joined environmental groups and charities representing over 5 million people who have been campaigning for a cleaner Thames in London in welcoming the decision of the government to go ahead with the long awaited and much needed Thames Tideway Tunnel. The Thames […]
Biggest ever carp brace
Cutting Edge Products user Warren Harrison visited Hungary’s Euro Aqua and bagged the biggest carp brace of all time, two fish for 181lb!!The monsters of 94lb and 87lb fell to the Manchester angler’s double boilie offerings over a bed of particle baits. The venue hit the headlines when it produced the world carp record at […]
Dack Wins Great Ouse Riverfest Qualifier
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 […]
