This report from Brenton Sweeney, manager of the Irish Feeder Team who competed at the 14th World Feeder Championships this week in Lithuania: 

So that’s the 14th World Feeder Championships finished in Lithuania. We have finished a very respectable 8th out of 22 countries on a tough River Skirvyte on the Russian/Lithuanian border.

This type of river fishing is something that the Ireland lads are not used to, but we worked very hard to get a team plan for the match days, which we felt was a good plan. We had to use feeders between 80 and 140 grams catching silver bream, ruffe, perch, carp, carrisio and odd big bream.

I want to thank the anglers, Michael Buchwalder, Charlie Richards, Rory Dunne, Johnny Mckinley, James O’Doherty and Steven Whyte who have put in a massive effort over the last eleven days to try and get the best result possible for the team.

I want to thank our management and bank runners of Nigel Houldsworth, Roger Baker, Nick Richards, Chris Haigh, Dara Finnegan, Sharon Fay Sweeney and Deimante Kar who have put in a massive effort, making life so much easier for the anglers.

A special thanks to Chris and Nick for driving the anglers gear out to Lithuania which took 6 days in total, a massive drive across Europe.

I want to thank our sponsors HRL (Chris Haigh), Sensas UK (Sean Ashby), Roger Baker and the NCFFI. I also want to thank Susan Seddon & Nick Seddon from Seddon baits for organising bait for us out in Lithuania.

This world championships was the best organised I have ever been at, well done to the World Feeder Championships in Lithuania .

I want to congratulate England on a brilliant team result, the team got the tactics spot on, I am absolutely delighted for Dean Barlow. I know the effort he has put in throughout the years and he so deserves this. Congratulations to Czech Republic on coming 2nd and Germany for coming 3rd.

Well done to Felix Scheuermann on winning the individual world gold for a second time. Arturas Lapinskas on coming second and Ramon Ansing for coming third.

It wasn’t our year to win a medal this year, but we will be back again in Italy 2026 to give it another go.