World Fly Fishing Championships

The World Fly Fishing Championship is organised by the Confédération Internationale de la Pêche Sportive (FIPS Mouche) and takes place annually since 1981 between 30 teams of six individuals per country (in 2018), over five sessions. The 2020 FIPS Mouche World Fly Fishing Championships has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will now be held August 10th to 17th, 2021 in the Kuusamo and Taivalkoski regions of Finland.[1]

FIPS Mouche

FIPS Mouche[2] is an abbreviation of "Fédération Internationale de Peche Sportive Mouche" (in English, the "International Fly Fishing Federation"), which is the fly fishing arm of CIPS (Confédération Internationale de la Pêche Sportive), founded in Rome in 1952,[3] the world regulating body for many different disciplines of fishing.[4] FIPS Mouche hand over the management responsibility for the organisation of upcoming FIPS Mouche event, in its entirety to selected host nation's fly-fishing governing body. The host nation is to ensure health and safety welfare, promotion, sponsorship and media arrangements, meet financial requirements and selection of suitable venues.[5]

WFFC rules

Six rounds with a duration of three hours of fly fishing are fished at five different geographical locations (sectors), a mixture of lakes and rivers to test all skills,[5] as chosen by the host nation beforehand for its abundant trout and game fish populations. All fish caught will be measured for length, rather than weight and are returned to the water alive.[6] Points are awarded to the most successful anglers and section points per round according to placing, with the winner receiving one point; the lowest overall score wins.

2017 WFFC

 Slovakia held the 37th FIPS Mouche World Flyfishing Championship 2017, which was won by  France who won with convincing domination of the event, securing three individual placings in the top 4 with the hosts only managing 4th place.[7] However, this was not enough to prevent Antonin Pešek of the Czech Republic winning the individual prize with a record score of just 8 points in Slovakia. Long shot outsiders  Australia finishing in 5th place secured their first top 5 slot since the year 2000. The venues fished were the rivers Váh, Belá, Poprad and Orava and on the water dam Palcmanska Maša located on the river at Dedinky near Dobšiná. These rivers hold huchen (Danubian salmon), brown trout, rainbow trout, grayling, brook trout, which provided plenty of good sport during the tournament.

2018 WFFC Italy
River Sarca at Castello di Arco, venue of the 2018 World Fly-Fishing Championship in Trentino, Italy

 Italy Hosted the 38th FIPS Mouche World Fly Fishing Championships in 2018, which was fished in Comano Terme, Trentino area of Italy.  Spain won the team event and also the individual with David García Ferreras victorious at The event was based at the Sarca River in Tione di Trento at the foot of the Natural Park Adamello Brenta, at Arco and at Pinzolo. Also at the Noce River at the Val di Non, and the Cornisello lake at the foot of Monte Giner near Mezzana within view of the Brenta Dolomites.[8] Species available in these waters include Marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) and Lake Char (Salvelinus umbla), both species indigenous to this region, also Brown trout (Salmo trutta) and Grayling (Thymallus thymallus).

2019 WFFC Tasmania, Australia
Mersey River, Tasmania
Meander River, Tasmania

 Australia hosted the 39th FIPS-Mouche World fly Fishing Championships, which took place between 30 November to 8 December 2019 in on the island of  Tasmania. The venues fished were Penstock Lagoon, Meander River, Woods lake, Mersey river and Little Pine lagoon which had featured before in the 1988 World Fly Fishing championships.[9] The lakes and lagoons are situated near the small town of Miena, Tasmania, including Penstock lagoon, Great Lake and Little Pine Lagoon. The geographic centre of Tasmania is located on the western shore of the lagoon.[10] The species of fish caught were brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Brown trout (a non-indigenous species to Tasmania) were first introduced to Australia on 4 May 1864 when 2700 live brown trout ova, which had been packed in ice since leaving England, were hatched into the Plenty river near Hobart, Tasmania. Rainbow trout from North America were introduced in 1894.[11] The team event was won by  France, the individual title went to Howard Croston of  England.

WFFC video history

WFFC results history from 1981 to present

WFFC Championships Team results

Event Host nation Year Winners Runner up 3rd place 4th place 5th place
40th WFFCFinland 2021----- [1]
39th WFFCAustralia2019 France Czech Republic Spain Finland Italy [12]
38th WFFCItaly2018 Spain Czech Republic Italy United States Finland [13]
37th WFFCSlovakia2017 France Czech Republic Spain Slovakia Australia [7]
36th WFFCUnited States2016 Spain France United States Czech Republic Slovakia [14]
35th WFFCBosnia and Herzegovina2015 Spain United States Bosnia and Herzegovina France Slovenia [15]
34th WFFCCzech Republic2014 Czech Republic France England Finland United States
33rd WFFCNorway2013 Czech Republic Italy France Finland United States
32nd WFFCSlovenia2012 Czech Republic Italy Spain France Slovakia
31st WFFCItaly2011 Italy Czech Republic Poland Spain United States
30th WFFCPoland2010 Czech Republic France Slovakia Poland South Africa
29th WFFCScotland2009 England France Scotland Finland Wales [16]
28th WFFCNew Zealand2008 Czech Republic New Zealand France Poland Italy [17]
27th WFFCFinland2007 France Czech Republic Finland Portugal Spain
26th WFFCPortugal2006 Czech Republic France Spain Italy Portugal [18]
25th WFFCSweden2005 France Finland Czech Republic??
24th WFFCSlovakia2004 Slovakia Czech Republic France Poland Belgium [19]
23rd WFFCSpain2003 France Belgium Spain??
22nd WFFCFrance2002 France Belgium Spain??
21st WFFCSweden2001 France Finland Czech Republic England Poland [20]
20th WFFCEngland2000 France Wales Australia??
19th WFFCAustralia1999 Australia France New Zealand Spain England [21]
18th WFFCPoland1998 Czech Republic Poland England Italy Slovakia [22]
17th WFFCUnited States1997 France Belgium Italy??
16th WFFCCzech Republic1996 Czech Republic France Poland??
15th WFFCIreland1995 England Wales Belgium??
14th WFFCNorway1994 Czech Republic Italy England??
13th WFFCCanada1993 England Poland Italy Wales Czechoslovakia [23]
12th WFFCItaly1992 Italy Belgium France??
11th WFFCNew Zealand1991 New Zealand Poland England??
10th WFFCWales1990 Czechoslovakia Poland Belgium France England [24]
9th WFFCFinland1989 Poland France Finland??
8th WFFCAustralia1988 England France Australia New Zealand Scotland [25]
7th WFFCEngland1987 England Australia New Zealand Wales Poland [26]
6th WFFCBelgium1986 Italy Belgium Czechoslovakia??
5th WFFCPoland1985 Poland Czechoslovakia France??
4th WFFCSpain1984 Italy England France??
3rd WFFCItaly1983 Italy Belgium Netherlands??
2nd WFFCSpain1982 Italy Spain Luxemburg??
1st WFFCLuxembourg1981 Netherland] Luxemburg Belgium?? [27]

WFFC Championships Individual results

Event Host nation Year 1 Pl 2 Pl 3 Pl 4 Pl 5 Pl Ref.
40th WFFCFinland 2021----------[1]
39th WFFC Australia2019 Howard Croston19 David García Ferreras19 Kristian Sveda22 Sebastian Delcor22 Valerrio Santi Amantini22[28]
38th WFFC Italy2018 David García Ferreras19 Jyrki Hiltunen21 Andrea Pirone24 František Kouba26 Jordi Oliveras Cortina28[29]
37th WFFC Slovakia2017 Antonin Pešek8Gregoire Juglaret12 Sebastian Delcor14 Julien Daguillanes20 Iván Vergé21[30]
36th WFFC United States2016 Julien Daguillanes13 Jordi Oliveras Cortina14 Lance Egan18 Pat Weiss23 Roman Heimlich24[31]
35th WFFCBosnia and Herzegovina2015 Piotr Marchewka21 Nikola Trebjesant25 Devin Olsen27 David Arcay Fernandez28 Sebastian Delcor29[15]
34th WFFCCzech Republic2014 Luboš Roza14 Piotr Armatys22 Andrew Scott22 Peter Alexovic22 Jean Guillaume Mathieu23[32]
33rd WFFCNorway2013 Valerrio Santi Amantini14Martin Drož19 Julien Lorquet26 Antonin Pešek37 Sebastian Delcor39[33]
32nd WFFCSlovenia2012 David Arcay Fernandez12 Valerio Santi Amantini12 Tomáš Adam23 Howard Croston26 Antonin Pesek28[34]
31st WFFCItaly2011 Valerrio Santi Amantini19 Stefano Cominazzini27 Roman Heimlich28 Pablo Castro Pinos29 Thomas Drinan29[35]
30th WFFCPoland2010 Pavel Chyba24 Tomáš Adam25 John Horsey29 Julien Daguillanes30 Sandro Soldarini30[36]
29th WFFCScotland2009 Iain Barr23 Donald Thom25 Christian Jadouille31 Yann Caleri- Calum Crosbie-[16]
28th WFFCNew Zealand2008 Martin Drož- Julien Daguillanes- Tomas Starychfojtu- John Horsey- Lucjan Burda-[17]
27th WFFCFinland2007 Marek Walczyk246 Eric Lelouvier251 Antonin Pešek251 Bertrand Jacquemin252 Yann Caleri255

[37]

26th WFFCPortugal2006 Antonin Pešek- Jonathan Torralbo Ruiz- Martin Drož [18]--- George Daniel -
25th WFFCSweden2005 Bertrand Jacquemin- Massimo Valsesia- Andrew Dixon-----[38]
24th WFFCSlovakia2004 Lav Antal12 Kazimierz Szymala14 Dan Svreek16 J. Canda- P.Machen-[19]
23rd WFFCSpain2003---- Jeff Currier-----
22nd WFFCFrance2002 Jerome Brossutti [39]- Tomas Starychfojtu [40]-------
21st WFFCSweden2001 Vladimir Sedivy29 Mark Yelland33 Pascal Cognard38 Stanislaw Guzdek39 Scott Tucker40[41]
20th WFFC England 2000 Pascal Cognard [42] Jean Michel Lauret Gareth Jones Edgardo Dona Erik Eikre
19th WFFC Australia1999 Ross Stuart- Sandy Nicolson- Pat O’Keefe- Shane Murphy- Bernard Marguet-[21]
18th WFFCPoland1998 Tomas Starychfojtu- Angelo Ferrari- Jozef Trnka- Milan Janus- Artur Raclawski-[43][22]
17th WFFC United States 1997 Pascal Cognard [42] Alain Magnien Tomas Starychfojtu Jeremy Herrmann Alain Gigot
16th WFFC Czech Republic 1996 Pierluigi Cocito [44] - - - -
14th WFFC Norway 1994 Pascal Cognard[42] - - - -
13th WFFC Canada1993 Russell Owen- Franciszek Szajnik- Jeremy Lucas-?-?-[23]
12th WFFC Italy 1992 Pierluigi Cocito [44] - - - -
11th WFFC  New Zealand 1991 Brian Leadbetter Adam Sikora Jan Astier Milan Janus Slavoj Svoboda
10th WFFC Wales1990 Franciszek Szajnik- Adam Sikora- Albert Bigare- Milan Janus- Rene Brugere-[24]
8th WFFC Australia1988 John Pawson- Brian Thomas- T. Piggott- Bob Church- J. Ramf-[25]
7th WFFC England1987 Brian Leadbetter- John Pawson- Chris Ogborne (- Bob Church- J. Ramf-[26]
4th WFFC Spain1984 Tony Pawson-?-?-?-?-[25]

WFFC Roll of Honour (Team champions)

Czech Republic 10, France 9, Italy 6, England 5, Spain 3, Poland 2, Slovakia 2, Australia 1, New Zealand 1, Netherlands 1

WFFC Roll of Honour (Multiple Individual champions)

Pascal Cognard 3, Brian Leadbetter 2, Pierluigi Cocito 2, Valerrio Santi Amantini 2, Antonin Pešek 2,[42][44][26]

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