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The Angling Trust has appointed fishing pioneer George Stephenson as its new Chairman, with immediate effect. With several decades experience of managing safari and fishing businesses around the world, George Stephenson brings great knowledge, business acumen and an excellent contact list to the role of Chairman of the rapidly-growing and dynamic representative organisation for all anglers in England. The post was widely advertised and attracted a number of high quality applicants. George Stephenson spent 25 years in Africa running safari…
The Angling Trust England Ladies coarse angling team produced one of the most sensational second day performances ever seen in winning the 20th FIPSed Women’s World Angling Championships on the magnificent river Sava in Radece, Slovenia from 24th – 25th August 2013 The setting for these championships was out of a picture book. Sitting between mountains on either side the river ran through a beautiful tree lined valley with a track allowing easy access to the pegs but more to…
Angling and fishery organisations have today welcomed an announcement from the Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon that plans are being drawn up to remove products containing the dangerous insecticide Chlorpyrifos from domestic sale. Mr Benyon was responding to strong representations from the Angling Trust, the national representative body for anglers, and fishery owners along the Kennet Valley in Wiltshire and Berkshire following last months’ devastating pollution of all invertebrate life along a 15 kms stretch of this famous chalk stream…
The Angling Trust has continued its high profile campaign against internet rod licence rip-off's and this week slammed Google for advertising web sites which take advantage of hard-pressed anglers trying to buy a rod licence by charging them a £20 administration fee for a £27 rod licence, despite offering no additional service whatsoever. The internet giant had taken down the adverts when the scam was exposed on taken up by BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme, but they have…
Fourteen of the top English ‘loch-style’ boat anglers will be travelling to the Lake of Menteith in Scotland in mid-September for the Home International competition against the host nation, Wales and Ireland. The England Team (Team England Fly Fishing) comprises the top anglers from the National final fished last year at Bewl Water in Kent. The team is captained by Stafford angler Paul Angell who had this to say about the teams prospects in Scotland. "With just over a month…
The Angling Trust and Preston Innovations England Feeder Team Manager, Tom Pickering is looking for talented anglers to compete in a Feeder trial on Saturday 28th September 2013. The trial will take place at Barston Lakes, Marsh House Farm Lane, Barston, Solihull, West Midlands, B92 0LB. Anglers who wish to apply for the trial must be of open match standard, and MUST be able to cast and fish at 80 yards minimum. The trial will be fished to FIPS international…
Groundbreaking Research into Elite Performance in Match Angling Angling Trust Team England has a long-standing record of success in international competition in coarse, game and sea disciplines. However angling is not generally seen as a performance sport. The Angling Trust has collaborated with sports scientists from the University of Chester and developed a world-leading research project to investigate the key traits required to become a world-class match angler and provide evidence-based guidance for selecting and developing future talent. During the…
Director of Calendar Girls and Made In Dagenham, Nigel Cole confirmedto direct Fisherman's Friends movie next spring. Ageism set aside as casting begins late 2013. Current single "Mary Anne" to feature on soundtrack. London, 26 July 2013: Ealing Studios have today confirmed that British film director Nigel Cole, responsibe for massively successful British feel-good movies ‘Calendar Girls’, ‘Saving Grace’ and ‘Made In Dagenham’, will direct the movie based on the trials, tribulations and tragedy during the rise to fame of…
Following the recent success of Team England Angling’s under 18s and under 23s teams in France, England are now undisputed World Match fishing champions. FIPSed, the world governing body for angling, last week issued new world rankings, based on competition results from the past 5 years, and England is number 1 in six of the ten categories and in the top three in three others. Mark Lloyd, Chief Executive of the Angling Trust said: “This fantastic achievement by the teams…
In the Angling Trusts' new grassroots, all discipline points league, anglers can compete at national level with other competitors in a "virtual fishing league" and will be able to compare results with team mates and other club competitors around the country. The National Fishing League runs from 3rd August 2013 to 30th March 2014 but registration is open NOW so get on board by following the simple steps below to register... Information for Anglers - How to Fish in a…
The Angling Trust has secured an important breakthrough in the war against poachers and fish thieves. Now all 132,000 police officers in England and Wales will have web access to fisheries enforcement guidance and the law on POLKA - the national Police On-Line Knowledge Area. Officers in the 43 forces in England and Wales routinely refer to POLKA when they encounter incidents and offences beyond routine beat policing. POLKA will now include the Angling Trust produced Elementary Guide to Angling Law…
During May Environment Agency Fisheries Enforcement Officers have continued patrolling the river banks and responding to reports of out of season fishing. Two officers in Northumbria dealt with 26 close season and 11 licence offences in one day alone. Patrols across England also detected other offences, such as unlicensed fishing, unauthorised crayfish traps and prohibited baits. In the Southeast Region, Angling Trust volunteers are working in partnership with the Environment Agency on Operation CLAMP DOWN to identify hotspots where illegal…
Fish Legal solicitors have exposed serious failings at the Environment Agency (EA) in responding to water pollution which kills wildlife. For many years Fish Legal members have complained of the Agency failing to respond to fish kill incidents effectively, including not completing full fish kill surveys to assess the numbers of dead fish or the impact on remaining fish populations. Fish Legal can now show from the EA’s own damning data just how bad the situation really is. TFish Legal…
Why not give Dad something he really wants this Father’s Day – take him fishing! It's a great way to spend quality family time together. The 2013 river coarse fishing season starts on Father’s Day, and Environment Agency annual rod licence holders can take a friend or family member fishing with them for free on the 16th of June. The Father’s Day special promotion is part of the annual Take a Friend Fishing campaign, run by the Angling Trades Association…
In the past two months the Angling Trust's Voluntary Bailiff Service (VBS) has gathered momentum. It started as a small pilot project in the South East of England, but it is now growing very rapidly and chalking up a number of successes in the battle against poaching and other illegal activity on the banks. A very wide range of people have volunteered their time to work alongside paid Environment Agency staff. Discussions are now underway with the Environment Agency about…
This year’s Glorious 16th June is also Father’s Day and Quest TV is running the entire first series of Fishing in the Footsteps of Mr. Crabtree back-to-back from 1 through to 7pm. What better way to celebrate than a whole afternoon and evening dedicated to fishing and revelling in all that's good about our great sport? There’ll be some great competitions running throughout the day so we at Team Crabtree recommend an early start - get out an enjoy a…
