Anglers' Net

European and British champion lure angler Steve Collett has been appointed manager of the newly formed England Bank Lure team. The official FIPSed title Carnivorous Artificial Bait Shore team will be selected during a trials process later on this year. View the full article

Mark Downes, England Team Manager has decided to announce this year’s England European Team and the England World Nations Team. Mark Downes and Darran Bickerton will be continuing with their youth policy which continues to grow. View the full article

The Angling Trust and campaign group Bluefin Tuna UK have written to Defra calling on the government to sanction a new catch & release tagging project for bluefin tuna in UK waters in 2020. View the full article

The Angling Trust is now recruiting Phase 1 Volunteer Bailiffs to join the highly successful and widely respected Voluntary Bailiff Service (VBS) in supporting the Environment Agency and Police in the ongoing fight against fisheries crime and illegal fishing. View the full article

The Angling Trust is pleased to confirm the details for the 7th Tidefest Angling Championship to take place on the tidal Thames in London on Sunday, September 6th. View the full article

The Angling Trust is pleased to confirm the details for the 7th Tidefest Angling Championship to take place on the tidal Thames in London on Sunday, September 6th. A donation from the ticket monies will once again be made to the children's angling charity Get Hooked on Fishing. View the full article

A decision notice published by the Information Commissioner’s Office has confirmed that electricity and gas companies are subject to the same public scrutiny of how their activities affect the environment as the water industry. View the full article

New mebers can choose from our latest range of joining gifts when they join the Angling Trust - making it great value for anglers to support our work for fish & fishing. View the full article

Following the England Selection Committee meeting held in Lymington on Saturday 1st February 2020 the Marine National Teams and Competition Group of the Angling Trust are delighted to announce the International teams for 2020. View the full article

The England Management team of Mark Downes and Darren Bickerton are looking for talented coarse anglers who would like to apply for the England U25s team. View the full article

Anglers have reacted with dismay to the Environment Agency's decision to step back from tackling the pollution of Whitley Pool in Cheshire. View the full article

This year the Preston Innovations England Feeder Team travel to France for the 10th FIPSed World Feeder Angling Championship on the La Vilaine River, Rieux on the 11th/12th July. View the full article

The Angling Trust is delighted to announce that RiverFest 2020 ticket sales will open in alignment with the end of the river season on, Monday 16th March at 10.30am for all Angling Trust members. A revamped competition for 2020 will see a brand-new final on the mighty River Trent at Burton Joyce, which we’re sure will provide plenty of rod bending action! View the full article

Cheshire's Westlow Mere Trout Fishery hosted the ninth AT-TEFF Bank Qualifier on Sunday 2nd February. 10 anglers competed for six places in the southern final at Elinor in March. The shallows at Westlow were used for the match and the gin-clear water this venue in known for tested the skills of those competing. View the full article

Campaigners from the Angling Trust and Avon Roach Project have presented a joint letter to Fisheries Minister George Eustice repeating the call by thousands of anglers for cormorants to be added to the general shooting licence in order to reduce unsustainable predation on vulnerable fish stocks. View the full article

A new law allowing the UK to manage its own fisheries outside the EU is beginning its passage through the Houses of Parliament. View the full article

Anglian Water has lost its appeal against the decision of a Cambridge judge to award compensation to the Cambridge Fish Preservation and Angling Society (CFPAS), a member club of Fish Legal. View the full article

The Angling Trust has announced the development of a new project - named Fishing In Wales - to officially promote angling in Wales. View the full article

The Angling Trust are pleased to announce the launch of their NEW Boat fly fishing competition the Tri-Masters, following on from the success of the Loch Style Team Championships which it launched three years ago. The Tri-Masters is for teams of three anglers, whether these are established teams of three or three fishing friends who wish to get together to try their hand at competition fishing. View the full article

The Angling Trust are pleased to announce the dates and venue for the 2020 Loch-Style Team Championships. This year’s competition will once again be held at Draycote Water in Warwickshire on the weekend of the 13th and 14th of June. View the full article

The Angling Trust are pleased to announce the relaunch of the Angling Talent Pathway for young game anglers. The Junior Game Angling Talent Pathway is aimed at junior fly anglers aged 12 to 16 who wish to develop their fly fishing skills to hopefully go on to represent England Youth in the future. View the full article

Twelve anglers fished the eighth bank qualifier of the 2019/20 season Bank House Fly Fishery, Lancashire. Cold frosty conditions greeted the anglers as temperatures dipped to minus five degrees the night before, however the lake remained ice free for the competition to go ahead. View the full article

Hayley Clapperton, Managing Director of Bait-Tech Ltd and all-round angling supporter has been announced as the Angling Trust's latest Ambassador. View the full article

The Angling Trust are seeking a passionate, enthusiastic, motivated and knowledgeable volunteer to manage England’s Sensas U20’s World Team. Candidates should share Angling Trust’s goal to make England the number one nation in the world, a position Sensas U20’s have held since 2013, and uphold the tradition of nurturing talented young anglers and supporting their progression to senior level. View the full article

The management team for the AT-TEFF loch-style teams have announced the teams to participate in the 2020 spring and autumn Home Internationals. The Spring International will be held on Lough Melvin in Ireland on the 12th June whilst the Autumn International will be in Wales at Llyn Trawsfynydd on the 11th September. The teams were selected from the top twenty-eight anglers from the National final held at Chew Valley in September 2019. View the full article