National Celebration - Day 1

Day 1 of the national celebration welcomes cadets aged 7 to 10 years inclusive and Youth participants aged 16 to 20 years inclusive on the day of the match. You will require an up to date Environment Agency rod licence if participating in the youth section

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

This year you can win your Gudgeon Mug sponsored by Guru Tackle for catching a gudgeon.

Booking information

Please book one ticket per participant in the correct category , 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 11th 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, 12 noon until 3pm

Youth 11.15am until 4.15pm

Youth should aim to be on the bank for 10am and Cadets 10.30-11.00am

The Rules

click on this link

Cost of Event

The cost for each participant is £7.00

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 mailto:lets.fish@canalrivertrust.org.uk

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 Teams Celebration event on Saturday 19th October 2024. For more information email mailto:john.ellis@canalrivertrust.org.uk

Covid-19 Guidelines

If you have Covid symptoms or if you have been told to self-isolate, you must not attend. Please cancel your ticket as set out above.

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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