Derbyshire Angling Federation

The General Data Protection Regulations and our members

The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are changing in May this year and we need to inform our members how this affects their relationship with us in regard to the data we collect from them and keep in order to run the Federation in a proper manner. We commit to:

only collect information that you need for a specific purpose;
keep it secure;
ensure it is relevant and up to date;
only hold as much as you need, and only for as long as you need it; and
allow the subject of the information to see it on request.

See the notice regarding the GDPR on the membership page.

Membership Form available

We now have a membership form for prospective members to download. It is available under Downloads on the right columnof the website.

Please print, complete and return to the Membership Secretary at the given address.

Gary Wilton special

Gary fished Burley Bend and caught a 15-02 beauty . This fish capped a run of big fish for him spread all over the river .

Winter League Dates

Oct 25 – 31. Nov 15 – 22. Dec 13 – 20. Jan 3 – 17. Feb 14 – 28.

Derbyshire Angling Federation Win Division Two National.

D.A.F. fished the Division Two National on Sat 12 Sept on the non-tidal River Trent .

A brilliant performance saw them win by the narrowest of margins tying on 224 points with Scunthorpe tackle. The team consisting of Steve Renshaw, Lee Richmond, Richard Wood, John Urrity, Andy Starkey, Clive Fletcher, Mark Perkins, Colin Walton, Anthony King and Wayne Bartholomew.

We had 4 anglers in the first 15 places. There were some great performances topped by Individual winner Mark Perkins with almost 16 kilos . His catch made up of 10 barble and 1 chub.

Burley Bend record

D.A.F. River bailiff Phill Needham broke our barbel record with this 15lb-12oz specimen witnessed and weighed by club treasurer Mike Scorer

Phil with the 15-12 barbel

Reporting Illegal Fishing

If you hear about or observe any illegal fishing activity or environmental crime, call the Environment Agency 24 hour incident hotline:

0800 80 70 60

We have a short guide you can download as a pdf file and print off to help you deal with what you suspect to be illegal fishing. Find it in the right column under Downloads.

For further help we also have a page on the website called ‘Reporting Offences to the Police’.

Steve Clifton catches 11lb 7oz barbel

The club secretary with his 11lb 7oz barbel

His biggest fan looks on admiringly