Guru-National Celebration of Young People and Fishing-Day 1(Cadets & Youth)

Day 1 of the national celebration welcomes cadets aged 6 to 10 years inclusive and Youth participants aged 16 to 20 years inclusive on the 1st day of January 2025 the match. You will require an up to date Environment Agency Rod Licence if participating in the youth section.

There are lots of amazing trophies and prizes, everyone who attends will go home with a prize, a specially signed comemorative certifcate a medal , trophy, tackle voucher ,goodie bag and hopefully one of our iconic gudgeon mugs sponsored by Guru Tackle for catching a gudgeon.

To help make the most of the day, we have made the video which explains all you will need to know, please see below.

Booking information

Please book one ticket per participant in the correct category, Cadets 6 to 10 years on 1st January 2025 and Youth 16 to 20 years on the 1st January 2025, ensuring that the ticket is booked in the name of the actual participant who intends to fish, not in the parent or guardians name. Multiple bookings using the same participant name will not be accepted.

The allocation of fishing positions will take place on Canal & River Trust Angling Facebook live on Wednesday September 10th from 5pm.

Directions to the canal.

You will be sent directions to the location of the nearest car park for your peg within 24hrs of the draw.

Match times

Cadets, 11.00 am until 3pm

Youth 11.00am until 4.00pm

Youth should aim to be on the bank for 10am and Cadets 9.30am -10.00am

The Rules

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Cost of Event

The cost for each participant is £7.50 plus booking fee

However, if you have booked on and are subsequently unable to attend before the draw then please cancel your ticket.

You must cancel using one of these three mechanisms:

• 1 The preferred method is via the Eventbrite ticket booking system using the link that you can find on your ticket. This can be found at the bottom of your ticket and has a link directly to “cancel my ticket”.

• 2 By email lets.fish@canalrivertrust.org.uk giving details of date, venue and participants in your email message.

• 3 If you are unable to attend after the draw you must cancel by emailing Let’s Fish

We ask for your co-operation in this matter. This will allow others who would otherwise have regrettably missed out due to lack of available fishing pegs, it will give the opportunity to those on the reserve list to attend this event.

What's Next

This event is also ideal preparation for the to represent your nations community at the Global Communities Celebration event on Saturday 18th October 2025. For more information email John Ellis

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Donate to Let's Fish!

The Canal & River Trust’s Let’s Fish! campaign is free to attend as part of our work as a waterways and wellbeing charity to help everyone get out, get active and make their lives better by water by learning to fish. You can now support the work our teams do with children and families and make a donation on our website. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/donate

For more information on events and fishing tips visit the Canal & River trust website https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/lets-fish or email us at: lets.fish@canalrivertrust.org.uk

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