Tickets for the Angling Trust Membership Match to be held at Fox Match Barford Lakes on Saturday 18th April go on sale this Thursday 5th March from 10am. There is a ticket booking number and anglers are advised to have their credit card details at hand when calling. Tickets cost £20 and Barford tackle.com will donate the £7 peg fee towards your Angling Trust membership fee - you will be joined up to the Angling Trust when booking in. £10 pools is payable on the day.
Anglers who are already a member of the Trust can still fish but should make use of their £20 ticket fee by putting forward an angler's details who is not a member.
The event is a team of 8 with the teams being captained by some of the country's top match anglers. Each tackle company has offered some goodies for its team members which may be a fleece and cap etc, Dynamite are giving a cap, polo shirt and a box of their product to each team member! There will be tackle prizes up for grabs as well as pools money.
Teams and their captains are as follows:
Fox Match - Derek Willan
Angling Times/Dynamite - Mark Sawyer
Garbolino - Grant Allbutt
Total Coarse Fishing Magazine - Kev Wilmot
Shimano - Mick Bull
Ultima - Andy May
Spro - Matt Godfrey
Online Fishing TV - Paul Ashford (local venue expert)
Daiwa - Kieran Rich
Maver - Jamie Masson
Browning/Zebco - Dave Vincent
Shakespeare/Pure Fishing - Neil McKinnon
Prizes donated so far are 6 x Team Daiwa 3012D reels (£129 each), Fox Match MSB1 Box (worth £465), a set of Shimano luggage, Set of Browning Water X Clothing (£200), a subscription for Total Coarse Fishing Magazine, Shakespeare Mach 3 11ft Match Rod and Feeder Rod along with 2 Mach 3 front drag reels worth £300. There have also been indications from Spro, Garbolino and Maver for prizes.
Sarah Thomson said "the response has been brilliant and even companies that haven't put a team in have donated prizes, Middy have donated a 3G Pellet Waggler rod. Mick Wilkinson was also more than happy to send us some of his floats as prizes too!"
Anglers stand a chance of winning team goodies and prizes exceeding the £30 ticket and pools costs.
The ticket hotline number is 0844 8849793, each angler will be allocated a team number when booking their place and once all tickets are sold team captains will be drawn live on Talk Sports Fisherman's Blues. the website supporting the event is www.anglingtrustmatch.com
You may have seen in the angling press that we are organising an awareness and membership drive for angling's new single governing body, the Angling Trust. We hope to encourage anglers from around the country to participate who were not a current member of any of the organisations that have merged to form the trust (NFA, NFSA, ACA, SAA and NAFAC) as they will already be a member of the trust by default. After fishing the event they will be a paid up member of the Angling Trust.
A team of 8 event with up to 12 teams fishing (96 pegs). Each team will be captained by a high profile angler and will be part of their tackle company's team. Each company will give each members of their team some tackle goodies (Online fishing TV are offering a 6 month subscription worth £30 and Fox Match are giving a fleece, cap and goodie bag to their team members and are also putting up a MSB1 box as a prize). We have also asked tackle firms to donate prizes to help boost the pools money.
The teams and their captains are as follows:
Ultima Andy May
Garbolino Grant Albutt
Fox Match Derek Willan
Angling Times/Dynamite Mark Sawyer
Total Coarse Fishing Mag Kev Wilmot
Shimano Mick Bull
Spro tbc
Online Fishing TV tbc
Daiwa Kieran Rich
Maver Jamie Masson
Browning/Zebco Dave Vincent
Shakespeare/Pure Fishing Neil McKinnon
The match will be held at Barford Lakes, Norfolk on Saturday 18th April. Entry costs £30, £10 of which will go towards pools (payable on the day). The £7 peg fee is being donated by Barfordtackle.com to go with the anglers' remaining £13 which will give them membership to the Angling Trust.
A ticket hotline number has been set up (charged at 5p a minute from BT landlines) which will be open at 10am on Thursday 5th March to accept entries. Anglers wishing to fish the match should have their card details handy when calling. Anglers will be allocated a team number and team captains will be drawn on Keith Arthur's Fisherman's Blues show once all the places have been sold. The ticket hotline number is 0844 8849793.
There is a website which supports the event where further details are available and it will also enable each team to make contact and discuss tactics before the event. www.anglingtrustmatch.com .
The Angling Trust can only make a difference to angling if they have the resources to do so - which will come from membership subscriptions. This match is one for the "naysayers" really - those anglers who are holding off on paying membership to see how the Trust works - without their membership the Trust will struggle to perform to its full potential.
The match has received very positive interest from the tackle firms and the sponsored anglers I have contacted. They all feel the Angling Trust is an important move for the future of our sport and businesses. I believe this year is crucial for The Angling Trust and we're pleased to help boost their membership whilst offering anglers a unique opportunity to fish with some of match angling's stars.
Mark Lloyd, Chief Executive of the Angling Trust who will be attending the event said: "It's fantastic that Sarah from Barford Lakes is taking the initiative to support the Angling Trust with this match. This new organisation will take over running all the existing national angling matches. As a single, united organisation, we will be able to attract more sponsorship, prize money and anglers to make the competitions better. We are very keen to hear any suggestions from match anglers about how to do this and anything else they want us to do for them as members of the Angling Trust."
Anglers are invited to do just that by logging onto www.anglingtrustmatch.com where there is a section called "Have your Say" which is dedicated to collecting match angler's views on what the Angling Trust can do for match fishing.
There are still opportunities to support the event as I'm looking for donations to add to prize bundles for team placings. If there are any tackle firms that wish to pledge their support for the Angling Trust and this event please get in contact with sarah@barfordlakes.com or 01603 759624. More information on the Angling Trust is available on www.anglingtrust.net
Kind regards
Sarah
Further Information:
● Contact Sarah Thomson at Barford Lakes on 01603 759624 or sarah@barfordlakes.com
● Barford Lakes are fishing lakes 7 miles west of Norwich www.barfordlakes.com
● The Angling Trust is angling's new singular governing body which was launched 5th January 2009. Previously angling had separate sea, coarse and game governing bodies, this merge saw 5 of the main organizations within angling merge to form the Angling Trust. The 5 were as follows:
NFA National Federation of Anglers
NFSA National Federation of Sea Anglers
ACA Anglers Conservation Association
SAA Specialist Anglers Alliance
NAFAC National Association for Fisheries and Consultatives)
The Angling Trust also replaces the Fisheries and Angling Conservation Trust.
For more information about the Angling Trust: www.anglingtrust.net , admin@anglingtrust.net or contact Mark Lloyd on 01568 620447.
● Match details are available on www.anglingtrustmatch.com
