Angling Competition & Coaching

2008 will see a new sport showcased at Cliffhanger. Angling is widely regarded as the biggest participation sport in the country and will be brought to the event by the Angling Star.

Cliffhanger ‘Teams of 4' Charity Angling Match

A feature of this year's Sheffield Council Cliffhanger will be a 20-peg angling competition on the Sunday organised by Angling Star magazine in conjunction with ‘Education through angling'.

This will be an invitation charity match to be fished at the nearby Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet dam, in aid of the Sheffield Museums Trust. Taking the limited available fishing space into account, and ensuring that the locals who have promoted the dam as a fishery were included, it was decided to invite five teams of 4 anglers as follows:

Woodseats ‘A', Woodseats ‘B', Sheffield Juniors (drawn from the Lord Mayor's Cup junior match on June 14), Hamlet AC, and Angling Star.

The match will be £15 all-in to enter for adults and £5 for each junior, with £100 of this to be donated to the Trust, and this goes back into junior angling education.

Spectators from visitors to the Cliffhanger are welcome to watch the event, from the roadside bank only, fished from 10am to 3pm. Tuition will also be given to youngsters attending the show by level 2 NFA coaches after the weigh-in. Now this might be a small water but it has a big catch reputation. With a good bag of fish of around 40lb tipped to win the event should be well worth watching.