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
- 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 Watson
- Dave Little
- Vintage Tackle and Books Roger Surgay
- The Crabtree Society in the museum with some historical tackle
Bait Boat Demonstrations from
- Sailvvay
- Rippton
Casting Demonstrations from
- Daiwa
- 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)
Marquee Line-up
- Fishery Management Q&A with Fisheries Consultant Andrew Ellis
- Carp Society Question Time hosted by Hassan Khan with Neil SPooner, Julian Cundiff, Steve Briggs, Terry Dempsey and Ian Russell
- Carp Fishing Hall of Fame Presentations
- Remeberence of Paul Selman & Maurice Steeles
- Unveiling Brian Sefton tribute
