The River Hull Angling Championship 2011 was the largest open coarse fishing match in the country with over 260 entrants. Due to the success of this inaugural event the organisers are planning a bigger and even better event, with even more prize money. The main change to the event in 2012 is that the event will now be spread over two rivers.
On Saturday 6th October 2012 anglers are invited to fish the Yorkshire Derwent Angling Championship. The following day (Sunday 7th October) anglers will be hotly contesting the Second Edition of the River Hull Angling Championship. With a £1000 first prize on offer both days the event is sure to prove popular with both local match anglers and those from across the country.
To spice up the competition even further, and give the event a true festival feel, EYevents who already host the hugely popular European Beach Open Championship, have provided a further £1000 first prize for the best placed angler for those fishing both matches. That one skilful and lucky angler will be the first to be crowned the 'Champion of East Yorkshire.'
To do well over the weekend anglers will have to have the full complement of running water skills. With sections on the Derwent being pegged over some 40km of river, anglers will have to be prepared to target everything from specimen size perch, chub and barbel in the upper sections on the bomb and big baits to catching mixed bags of roach, dace and bream in the lower reaches on long rod and pole tactics. Local experts are unsure where the winner will come from, and surprises are to be expected.
With the River Hull Championship being pegged on both the slow flowing upper river and also the powerful tidal river, the successful angler will have to be equally skilled and willing to adapt their tactics throughout the match to keep the quality roach coming to the net. It really is one of the ultimate match angling challenges left on the modern river match anglers' calendar.
Tickets for each match are £5, with optional pools of £10 per match being paid out to the top 3 anglers in each of the sections so that every angler will have something to fish for even if they do not draw on a shoal of feeding bream. Tickets for both matches will be on sale in local tackle shops in mid June.
Both matches are being run in conjunction with the East Yorkshire Chalk Rivers Trust (EYCRT) and the Environment Agency (EA) in order to survey both rivers' fish stocks. Spokesperson for the EYCRT said “despite the best efforts of the Environment Agency’s Environment Monitoring team, the rivers are just too deep and fast flowing to use normal survey methods such as electric fishing."
The information on the status and distribution of the fish populations obtained from last year’s River Hull event has allowed the Trust and the Agency to further improve the fish stocks and angling opportunities on the river. The EA and the Trust have been busy over the winter months creating spawning habitat and fry havens also planting willows on some of the stretches that did not fish too great last year.
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