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The Biggest event in Ireland is BACK! The Lakelands & Inland Waterways World Pairs Angling Championship is to take place the 9th to 13th September 2013. Kevin Locke Match Organiser stated 'I am delighted that Lakelands & Inland Waterways have agreed to sponsor the World Pairs in 2013'. The event, which was won by Irish duo Phillip Jackson and Cathal Hughes, was a massive success in its first year with anglers keen to see it back on the calendar for 2013! The match saw the first place pairing walk away with a stunning £30,000 cheque, one of the richest prizes in angling, along with generous tackle prizes from Daiwa. Details have not been finalized yet and are due for release on the 8th of April.

New Easter Festival Announced! An exciting new veterans festival is set to take place at Weston Pools Fishery in Shropshire. With sponsorship from tackle giant Tri Cast, the event will take place on Wednesday 20th, Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of March. Entry costs just £50, which includes festival entry and peg fees. There is an optional superpool of £10 on the day, with the overall result decided on section points.

Here are the anglers and their sections for the first Spring event of the year in Cornwall, the White Acres Bait-Tech Festival: A SECTION Cameron Hughes Bob Jarvis Mark Johnson Simon Jones Wayne Kearney Barry Killinger Ben Leach Andy Leathers Steve Mitchell Colin Mulholland Bret Nicholson Dave Phillips Sam Powell Andrew Power Neil Richards Shaun Sylvester John Treweek Steve Tucker Gary Webber Peter Wedgbrow Tony Wynnick Jamie Parkhouse B SECTION Grant Albutt Richard Bacon Andy Bennett (Manchester) Steve Berclough Graham Hall Dave Bruton Simon Wilsmore Andrew Crocker Mark Davidge Alan Davis James Hawkins Dominic Hunt Simon Hunt Mark Jones Mark Kimber Jason Lebosquet Barry Oliver Mick Owen Steve Parry Tom Pringle Mark Read Joff Rogers Kevin Scott Darren Shaw Des Shipp Scott Smith James Thomas Adam Wakelin Gary Walker Chas Ward Lee Werrett Mikey Williams Danny Wynn C SECTION Kevin Abigail Neil Adcock Martin Amos Pete Bowles Phil Canning Steve Cooke Brian Cross Nick Crouch Pete Currell Colin Dumphy Darren Fordham James Garside Matt Godfrey Eddie Green Andy Grimes Mark Brown Tim Jones Chris Kerbel Richard Kinning Paul Larthwell Stewart Lister Roly Palmer Russ Parsons Tommy Pickering Bradley Proctor Lee Prophet Steven Prophet Steve Sanders Nigel Smith Andy Stone Ed Warren Wayne Westhead Richard Wildman Doug Wright D SECTION Cliff Adams Neil Anderson Roy Beasley Mark Bexon Harry Billing Nigel Bond Damian Brierley Roger Brown Paul Burns Michael Corsini Scott Cousins Craig Elkin Nick Fleming Chris Fox Jimmy Garside Kurtis Greenwood Russell Grimes Dave Hillier Paul Holland Mick Kearns Mick Lees Gavin Messer Paul Newell Neil Newman Paul Pargetter Alan Prophet Sam Randle Ricky Salmon Tom Scholey Alan Spooner Keith Standage Alan Talbot Rob Wooton Pemb Wrighting E SECTION Jimmy Archer Glen Calvert Steve Clarke (Essex) John Deakin Callum Dicks Lee Edwards Paul Faiers Simon Gould Tom Hanser Graham Harding Mark Harper Richie Hull Peter Keeler Darren Kempson Jason Kirk Paul Lasson Alan Lord Barry Lucas Dave Martin Steve Martin Les Moody Ryan Musgrave Andy Neil Adriam Pickering Adrian Quarril Phil Ringer Steve Ringer Tim Rowe Roger Smith Chris Vandervleit Andy Weston Pete Wild David Williams Martin Wright LAKES: Pollawyn Jennys/Trewaters Trelawney/Twin Oaks Porth Bolingey Visitwww. news-reel. com for more information about White Acres. .

New state of the art DVD from Bait Tech!2013 is set to be another massive year in the life of Bait-Tech. After the huge success of their first DVD with Advanced Bait Solutions 1, the second instalment is about to hit the tackle shops - and Media Manager, Andy Neal has warned the angling world to get ready! He explained: "Advanced Bait Solutions 2 is the next DVD production that sees Bait-Tech’s top stars fish a variety of waters using a variety of methods. Big names such as Albutt, Didcote, Harrell, Thompson plus many others will show you why they are rated as the best in the land. Watch Andy Neal and Steve Tucker go head to head on bream and see Dave Harrell uncover a method that could revolutionise river fishing as we know it… with more tackle, tips and up close bait clips, this must see Free DVD will be in shops from April.

Kerry and Dicks to represent England!Mark Downes and Mark Addy, Joint Drennan Team England Managers, have announced their England squad to compete in this year’s 19th Coarse Angling European Championship in Novisad, Serbia on the Danube canal from 24th – 30th June. Following last year’s European silver medal win in Spain, Mark Downes and Mark Addy have decided to give some ‘Young Blood’ a chance to establish themselves. Stepping down this year for the European Championship are Steve Gardener and Steve Hemmingray. They are replaced by Barnsley’s Lee Kerry, who has already represented his country at Youth level and Bristol’s Callum Dicks, a regular in the successful Dorking squad, and a former Youth World Champion.

Good year ahead predicted at White Acres!Match legend, and manager of Cornwall’s White Acres Holiday Park, Clint Elliott has predicted a great year for his guests, after a cracking personal winter campaign at the venue. “Considering how up and down the weather has been, I couldn’t be more happy with how good the fishing has been at White Acres this winter. I was lucky enough to win the Cornish Winter League, and we enjoyed pretty consistent sport throughout" he explained. "The last round a couple of weeks ago was a real highlight – I drew on Jenny’s and managed 60lb of roach and F1s, a brilliant days fishing in anybody’s book! This was only good enough for third overall – and in that particular match carp didn’t count! In terms of the stocking of the fishery, I haven’t changed a lot this year.

Eric Humphries steps down as manager. The manager of the Welsh International team, Eric Humphries has resigned from his post with immediate effect. The moves comes following a meeting between the Welsh Federation Of Anglers, that took place last week, in which Eric received a vote of no confidence. He told Angling News Week: “I am obviously very disappointed to have to stand down, as I loved working with the team – but in many ways it may be a blessing in disguise.