This year’s much-anticipated Wild Trout Trust annual fundraising auction has just gone live on ebay.

At Urbantrout we know a significant number of anglers who use the auction as a guide to planning their season’s fishing. So when we found ourselves marking up the printed catalogue with all the urban fishing options before saving a list of links from the auction site, we thought hang on, why not do the same for our readers?

And here’s the result, which we believe is the widest-ever selection of tempting lots for town- and city-centre fishing connoisseurs…

• Lot 50: A week’s permit for 2 rods on the Inverness Angling Club‘s River Ness through Inverness
• Lots 83 and 84: A year’s membership of the Merthyr Tydfil Angling Association, with miles of wild trout fishing on the post-industrial upper Taff
• Lot 99: 2 days for 2 rods fishing the Merthyr Tydfil Angling Association water on the Taff or Usk
• Lot 166: Stuart Crofts’ challenge: fishing 5 different small rivers within 15 miles of Sheffield, with the aim of catching at least one wild brown trout from each
• Lot 180: A day’s fishing for 2 rods on West Yorkshire’s Colne and/or Calder, guided by Gary Hyde
• Lot 199: A day’s guided fishing on south London’s River Wandle in the company of this blog’s very own Theo Pike
• Lot 221: Guided by the Wild Trout Trust’s Ben Tyser, 1 day for 1 rod on the Wimborne stretch of Dorset’s River Allen (including lunch in the newly-refurbished Allendale Centre!)

In the arts and literature section, there’s also the opportunity to add to your town fishing library:

• Lot 9: A signed copy of Charles Rangeley-Wilson’s new book Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River (of which more soon…)
• Lot 19: A signed copy of Theo Pike’s Trout in Dirty Places: 50 rivers to fly-fish for trout and grayling in the UK’s town and city centres

Bidding will close on a rolling basis throughout the evening of 14 March.

This auction is the Wild Trout Trust’s single most important source of unrestricted funds, which raises more than £50,000 for wild trout habitat improvement each year.  

So bid early, bid often and know you’re helping one of the world’s best and most effective river restoration organisations!

Tags: Books, Fly-fishing, Funding, London, Sheffield, Urban fishing, Urban river restoration, Urban rivers, Wandle