Individual National Championship

Leeds Liverpool Canal

Saturday 3rd August 2024

The Individual National Championship is for all individual members of the Angling Trust over the age of 16 on the day of event.

This is an individual event scored by overall weight, the winner will become the Individual National Champion.

Headquarters and Results:

HQ Address for draw: TBC

Draw: 8:00am on the morning

Fishing: 11:00am – 4:00pm (duration of 5 hours)

Sections: TBC

Closure of waters for practice: TBC

Keepnets: A minimum of 2 keepnets must be taken by every angler.

Licences: All competitors must be in possession of a current Environment Agency Rod Licence. Any competitor reported by the Environment Agency to the resulting team on the day of the match will be disqualified.

Rules / Bait bans: TBC

Eligible fish: All fish caught are eligible for weighing with the exception of Game fish, Pike, Zander & Crustaceans.

Angling Trust Individal National Angling Championships 2023

Shropshire and Union Canal – Nantwich

Our competitors were welcomed by a cooler and overcast start to today’s competition, making a comfortable start to the match.

This didn’t last long as the Sun burnt its way through the weak cloud cover, that heralded 30+ degrees for the rest of Competition.

The choice of venue was from three off this year’s Div 2 sections, to be fished later this month.

The venue looks in fine fettle for a fortnight’s time with many anglers putting more than two Kilos in their nets. While the top six anglers weighed in over 51kg.

This year’s Bronze medal was picked up by Mick Topping, the Silver by Steve Dudley. Who landed 7kg 300g and 8.470 respectively.

And this years Gold Medal and Individual National Champion for 2023.

Congratulations, Angling Trusts very own Alex Clegg, who put in a breathtaking performance of keeping Skimmer Bream, Hybrids, Roach, Perch and Silver Bream for a terrific weight of 18kg 280g.

Well done all, fishing in such glaring heat. Well done Alex in keeping the swim alive and fish coming, despite a boat crashing into your far bank feature during the match

https://www.hotfishin.com/app/matchresults/Angling-Trust/Angling-Trust-Individual-National-Championship/YFY24L0Q/

2021 INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL REPORT

Despite the venue being in dour form of late we still had the biggest turnout for an Individual National we have seen for many a year. Heavy downpours in the days preceding the match did nothing to improve the sport and most competitors struggled for just a few bites with 49 competitors not bothering the scalesmen. Despite that, there were some respectable weights recorded by those that were lucky enough to find themselves on feeding fish with 2Kg plus required to finish in the top 40. Paul Abbott was over the moon to be drawn peg 145 on the mouth of Yardley Marina and he made no mistake in winning this prestigious contest and take the accolade of Individual National Champion 2021 and the gold medal with 12.770Kg of bream taken on ground bait feeder tactics.

Individual National Champion 2021 Paul Abbott

Another fancied peg, peg 1 at Stoke Bruerne was drawn by Terry Molloy and after a bumpy start losing 5 good skimmers on the trot he managed to keep the rest on the hook and ended up as runner up and a silver medal with 9.610Kg of skimmers. Graham Smith was drawn at peg 188 at Drift Farm which had a bit of form and despite falling behind in the early stages to the pegs below him he clawed it back to finish in the bronze medal position with 7.680Kg of skimmers.

Top 3 winners from left to right: Graham Smith (bronze medal), Paul Abbott (gold medal), Terry Molloy (silver medal)

Full results can be found posted on the Angling Trusts Competitions Facebook page.

The canal is now closed to practice so 2 weeks’ rest should now give us a better Division 1 National to look forward to.

The Angling Trust would like to thank Chris Howard and his team for organising the day and Northampton Nene AC for use of their waters.

Result:

1^st Paul Abbott 12.770Kg

2^nd Terry Molloy 9.610Kg

3^rd Graham Smith 7.680Kg

4^th John Bates 6.160Kg

5^th Daniel Abbott 5.950Kg

6^th Tony Cassidy 5.700Kg

Zone Medal Winners:

Pegs 1 – 30 Terry Molloy Peg 1 9.610Kg

Pegs 31 – 60 John Bates Peg 35 6.160Kg

Pegs 61 – 90 Steve Pawson Peg 77 5.090Kg

Pegs 91 – 120 Dan Ashington Peg 98 3.580Kg

Pegs 121 – 150 Paul Abbott Peg 145 12,770Kg

Pegs 151 – 175 Simon Willsmore Peg 167 2.120Kg

Pegs 176 – 200 Graham Smith Peg 188 7.680Kg