Events 2025
Saturday 26 July to Sunday 31 August 2025
National Fishing Month event organisers must provide certain facilities and achieve specific standards in terms of safety. Chief amongst those requirements is use of approved Level 2 coaches to ensure that safeguarding and health and safety standards in general are adhered to. Information on coaching and approved coaches can be found here
Are you organising an event during NFM that could get more people enjoying the benefits of angling? Share your event with us and we’ll share it with everyone!
Event Organisers
Links from our trusted event organisers during National Fishing Month.
Take a friend Fishing
A fantastic opportunity to experience angling! Get together with a friend or family member to go on a fishing trip and start a new hobby. It’s the ideal way to relax, enjoy nature and the great outdoors together.
Take a Friend Fishing is an initiative brought to you by Angling Trades Association and the Environment Agency. It is designed to give more people the chance to give fishing a try by allowing a licenced angler to take a unlicenced angler fishing for a specified day.
AAPGAI
Are you interested in taking up fly fishing or fly dressing? AAPGAI was formed in 2003 to enhance the practise and enjoyment of fly fishing and fly dressing by anglers of all ages and ability levels. Find an instructor near you to help you stay safe, learn, improve and enjoy the art of fly casting.
Access Angling (Yorkshire)
Access Angling offer angling sessions to help the community of all ages improve their Health and Wellbeing in a natural, tranquil environment. South Yorkshires leading provider of educational angling sessions for schools, alternative provision providers.
Angling Trust – Get fishing
Get Fishing is the Angling Trust’s campaign to get more people fishing more often. Get Fishing angling events cater for anyone who wants to get into fishing or get back into fishing. All ages and abilities. Find out how to go fishing for the first time, where to go, who to go with and what to use to start fishing or get back into fishing.
British Disabled Angling Association – Fisheries
The BDAA was founded in 1996 to develop opportunities for disabled people of all ages and abilities to access the activity of fishing in the UK. Information about approved fishery in locations across the country.
CamperDays Fishing and Camping Guide
Find the ideal campsite for your next fishing holiday and what are the best campsite facilities for fishing. The guide also includes some useful tips on how to safely stow away your fishing equipment in a campervan.
Canal & River Trust
Want to try fishing? CRT’s award-winning Let’s Fish events will get you catching in no time. Whether you’ve fished before or not, you can find out more about fishing on a canal near you. Relax outdoors with your family and enjoy Britain’s countryside and waterways.
Embryo Family Fishing
These venues are run and designed with young and novice anglers in mind. All lakes are run on a pre-booking day ticket system. All bookings are done online with the information needed for you to fish provided.
Fishing For Schools
Fishing for Schools was developed by world renowned fly fisherman Charles Jardine, who saw the potential for angling to educate and enrich learning. Since 2007, Fishing for Schools has taken young people out of the classroom and into the countryside, developing confidence and learning new skills.
Fishing Wales
Where better to try than in Wales? If you are just learning to fish or wish to try branching into another discipline of the sport, then these Fishing Wales articles will help you start fishing, learn how to catch fish and master new techniques. There is something to catch for everyone – from beginner to expert angler.
Game Angling Instructors Association
If you fancy a go at fly fishing you will find a qualified instructor here. GAIA offer experience in all aspects of game angling and fly fishing
Tackling Minds
Tackling Minds has quickly become established as a trusted provider of angling events within the UK and offers support to people from all walks of life that are struggling with a range of issues. From beginners to experienced anglers. As seen on TV.
UK Fishing School (Norfolk)
Fully equipped courses for a successful fishing experience. Everything you need, including rod licenses, entry fees, equipment, and bait. Expert instructors guide you in setting up and using the equipment, making sure you’re ready to catch in your first fish. Acquire the skills to confidently catch fish, set up your own tackle for future family or friend outings.