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Membership to the NJAA is open to any club or fishing team,
and entitles member clubs to enter teams into our 3 annual
competitions.
Membership runs from January to December. The Affiliation fees
is £30 for new clubs, and £25 subscriptions for
existing clubs providing they subscribe before the end of
January. Late subscriptions will be treated as new members and
charged £30. All monies from subscriptions are spent on trophies for competitions or essential equipment for the Association. By
joining the association, you must agree to abide by our Rules
(see below)
Online
Affiliation Form
To
join the NJAA, please print out this affiliation form, complete
it and return it to the address at the bottom of the form, along
with payment as explained on the form.
If
you have any queries regarding affiliation, please contact the
NJAA either by Email:
office@njaa.org.uk
or
by post:
NJAA
75
Stoney Rock Lane
Beckett
Street
Leeds
LS9
7TB

NJAA
Match Rules – updated 30th March 2009
- Annual
affiliation fees to be paid before 31st March. New
clubs/associations wishing to join must pay the affiliation
fee prior to the first event entered.
- Each
affiliated club/association is entitled to enter any number
of teams of six Juniors (under 16 on the day of the match)
and teams of four Intermediates (under 19 on the day of the
match) in the National match, which always takes place on
the first Saturday in September; and in the Challenge match,
run on the first Saturday in October.
- Each
member club/association is permitted initially, to enter one
team of eight in the NJAA Under-18s’ Championship,
comprising no more
than four team-members aged between 16, & under 18, on
day of the match (i.e. all teams must field a minimum of four 'juniors', and
‘intermediates’ must be under 18 on the day of
competition). Subsequently, further teams may enter on a
first come, first served basis, as venue pegging allows
(Results Officer to oversee).
- Every
competing club/association must provide one competent
steward (aged over 18) per team entered for competitions.
Stewards must register with the match officials at least 30
minutes prior to the match draw, where they will be
allocated a specific section(s). Stewards must attend, and
remain on their allocated section for the duration of the
competition, unless other arrangements are agreed with the
match officials. He/she will be responsible for stewards’
equipment for the duration of the match and must return it
to the issuing officers at headquarters as soon as possible
after the weigh in. No team will be allowed to enter events
without a steward. Stewards are
responsible for upholding the rules of the Association.
- Each
club/association is responsible for transporting their own
competitors to and from the pegs.
- Any
person of the age of 12 and over must have a valid E.A.
licence to be eligible to fish matches - this to be the
responsibility of every competitor.
- Before
competition starts, assistance may be given in respect of:
transport of equipment etc. to pegs; positioning equipment,
seat-boxes, umbrellas, keepnets and rollers, as well as
assembling rods and poles etc. Once competition is underway,
all competitors must cast and feed themselves; strike, play
and land their own fish. In cases where assistance is deemed
necessary for the welfare of the competitor or the fish,
stewards must be called upon. Coaching/bank-running
is not permitted during competition and team
managers/spectators etc. must be positioned, and remain,
halfway between pegs and not
behind the competitor.
- Competitors
must not disturb the water prior to the match (including the
act of groundbaiting), but may position their keepnet, wet
their groundbait and plumb the depth (with a lead weight,
not a feeder).
- Competitors
shall use one rod, line and hook only, at one time. Other
tackle(s) may be assembled for use, but must not be baited.
Landing nets must not be placed in the water, unless being
used to land a fish.
- On
stillwaters, each competitor may fish as far as half the
distance between their peg and the adjacent peg. On flowing
waters they will fish in the direction of the flow as far as
the next peg.
- All
baits may be used except those banned by the controlling
body of the water on which any match is fished, although on
venues where the use of bloodworm & joker are permitted,
these baits will be permissible only, for NJAA competitions,
between October and March. Fish must not be used as live or
dead bait. Groundbait may be thrown in by hand, or via
catapult, throwing stick, swim-feeder or bait-dropper.
- All
fish caught (including eels) must be retained in keepnets
which comply with Environment Agency bye-laws. Large fish
which could be damaged by retention in keepnets, may be
weighed, recorded and returned during the match, at the
discretion of the stewards.
- After
commencement of the match, all competitors must remain at
their pegs, except to answer the call of nature, until
details of their return has been recorded, even if they have
caught no fish.
- For
the duration of the match,
competitors must not
use mobile phones other than in an emergency, when stewards
must be notified.
- All
fish in season must be weighed, except salmon and
crustaceans, or those banned by the host club, or the
controlling body of the water on which the match is fished.
In the event of any dispute, the fish must be weighed and
recorded and a report given to the committee upon arrival at
H.Q. Fish hooked before the ‘all out’ will be eligible
for weighing if landed within 20 minutes of the match
ending.
- It
is the responsibility of the competitor to clear any litter
from his/her peg
and to ensure that details of their catch are properly
recorded. All litter
to be cleared from peg before weigh-in, where safe to do so.
- The
individual weight of each competitor’s catch will be
recorded to the nearest half ounce (or 10g if metric scales
are used), rounded up, and the results will be calculated on
a points system.
- Should
any objections relating to the match arise, these must
lodged with a match official or a committee member within
one hour of the match ending. In this event, the N.J.A.A.
will set up a committee to consider such dispute or claim,
and to interpret and apply the rules where necessary. They
shall have the power to disqualify those that breach any
rules and their decision will be final, with no appeal.
- It
is the responsibility of each and every competitor, and
their officials to read these rules and abide by them.
Infringement of the rules may result in disqualification,
and ignorance will not be accepted as a reason or excuse,
for breaches or irregularities.
The
preceding rules cancel and supersede any rules formerly in
operation.

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