Festival of Carp 2025
🎣 Tick-Tock, Carp Fans — Save the Date! 🎣
The Festival of Carp is back at Horseshoe Lake, Lechlade on Saturday, 12th July — and it’s shaping up to be another unforgettable day for all ages.
Whether you're a die-hard angler or just love a good day out, there’s something for everyone:
- Talks from experts
- Live demos by top angling brands
- Coaching sessions to help kids catch their first fish (thanks to Angling Trust)
- Casting demos and tuition
- Vintage tackle displays, including rare ‘Carp Catchers Club’ items
- Tackle and book sales
- Raffles
- A special auction featuring books and other significant items from the late Chris Ball’s collection
- Great food, drinks, and plenty more...
Don’t miss it — mark your calendar and join us by the lake!
Free to members with membership cards, wives, girlfriends and children and well behaved dogs. £10 to non members.
Trade Stands
- The Carp Society
- Angling Times
- Angling Trust
- Angling Protect
- Atomic Tackle
- Avid
- Bespoke Angling Supplies
- Century
- Cotswold Rods
- Daiwa
- Dobbins Bobbins
- Five Star Baits
- Fortis
- Haulerz Tackle
- Mad Baits
- Nutrabaits
- Pallatrax
- PB Products
- Plumpton College
- Ripton Boats
- Sailvvay Boats
- Shimano
- Solar Tackle
- South Coast
- Rods
- Sticky baits
- Thinking Anglers
- Swimbooker
- Team England
- Trakker
- Urban Baits
- Urban Frog Tackle
- Wallop
- Wychwood
- British Carp Study Group
- Barbel Society
- Tench Fishers
- Perch Fishers
- Pike Anglers Club
- Chub Study Group
- Chub Study Group
- Catfish Conservation
- National Anguilla Club
Book Launches and Vintage Tackle Displays
- Rod Hutchinson Book Release and signing with Little Egret Press & Tim Paisley
- Dave Dog Publishing (Stuart Brookes)
- Dave Little
- Vintage Tackle and Books Roger Surgay
- The Crabtree Society in the museum with some historical tackle
Bait Boat Demonstrations
- Sailvvay
- Rippton
Casting Demonstrations from
- Daiwa Nash
- Nash
- South Coast Rods
Tuition/Instructional from
- John Carver casting demo with Century Rods
- Angling Trust's 'Get Fishing' for Juniors
- Rig & Bait Clinic with Joe Turnbull
Competitions & Other
- Daiwa casting competition
- Carp Society Raffle
- Mega Auction with items from Chris Balls personal collection, drawings and paintings. Carp Society Golden Ticket plus more (see printable list to be linked)
- AUCTION LIST #mce_temp_url#
Marquee Line-up
10am
Fishery Management Q&A with Fisheries Consultant Andrew Ellis
12 midday
Carp Society Question Time hosted by Hassan Khan with Neil SPooner, Julian Cundiff, Steve Briggs, Terry Dempsey and Ian Russell
2.15pm
Carp Fishing Hall of Fame Presentations
Remeberence of Paul Selman & Maurice Steeles
Unveiling Brian Sefton tribute
FOLLOWED BY AUCTION & RAFFLE