The fisheries & angling team

Stoke on Trent Angling Society. Our Let’s Fish Coaching Year

10 January 2022

The Society was founded in 1899 by a group of dedicated anglers. This reservoir supplies water to the Caldon Canal which in turn joins the Trent & Mersey in the city.

Posted by: The fisheries & angling team
Northampton Nene Angling Clubs Let’s Fish Coaching Year 2021

6 January 2022

I emailed long serving committee members enquiring about club beginnings. Some of these folks are approaching their more mature years and I thought one or two may have been around when the club was first constituted. This proved not to be the case. I discovered we’re one of the oldest established angling clubs in the country, being in continual existence since the 1850s.

Posted by: The fisheries & angling team
Sandwell Junior Passport to Angling

6 January 2022

The Canal & River Trust are proud to be a founding partner of United by Birmingham 2022. Our Let’s programme will be part of this initiative, hence 2022 will see plenty of Let’s Fish activity on the canals in the West Midlands.

Posted by: The fisheries & angling team
Fishing books for Christmas

15 December 2021

Traditionalists of a certain vintage, myself included, brought up before the invention of electronic devices, love nothing more than to sit down with a paper book or two over the holiday period. If you are on the look-out for a last minute literary present for the angling friend in your life, here are four options that are likely to appeal.

Posted by: The fisheries & angling team
Port Sunlight’s Let’s Fish Journey

8 December 2021

An angling club that has started to fulfil its full potential in recent years is the Wirral based Port Sunlight club. This is their story.

Posted by: The fisheries & angling team
Stronger together. Do we need to become more united?

9 November 2021

‘If a house be divided against itself, then it cannot stand’ wrote Mark, one of the four biblical gospel authors. Hundreds of years before Mark got his quill out, the concept of United we stand, divided we fall’ had already been penned by Aesop. History has shown that there’s a lot of wisdom in those famous fables. Does it have any relevance to angling?

Posted by: The fisheries & angling team
James' Fishing Journey

9 November 2021

When my son James mentioned recently he would like me to take him fishing at the start of the school summer holidays I instantly thought the usual parent response ‘Oh no, not another five-minute interest’. For some reason I stopped myself and pondered whether this might actually be an opportunity for me to try something with him. Maybe it was something we could learn together.

Posted by: The fisheries & angling team
Who was the first BAME angler to participate in the national angling championships?

9 November 2021

The angling representative on the London and SE partnership board, Dick Pilkinton has been playing a significant behind the scenes role around the Trust work for October's black history month.

Posted by: The fisheries & angling team

Showing results 25 to 32 of 227

About this Blog

The fisheries & angling team

Our team undertake a diverse range of work, looking after £40m worth of fish stocks, managing agreements with over 250 different angling clubs and helping more people take up angling on the canals. Follow this blog to keep updated with the thoughts and work of the team.