After a very cold two week period, the past week has seen temperatures rise and kinder conditions for anglers to fish in more settled conditions on our loughs, rivers and at sea.  The weather looks very nice at the moment so if you have ventured out fishing in the last while, it is certainly worth a few pleasant hours on your favourite water.  There is very good fishing to enjoy and this week catches showed what can be achieved in the shorter days of year.

There was very little coarse angling activity to report this week but perch and roach are being caught daily in the little harbour in Virginia on Lough Ramor.  Some nice perch were taken on lures on a very icy Lough Ennell.

Damian Lisewski with the Catch of the Week a 115cm, 18Ib pike
Damian Lisewski with the Catch of the Week; a 115cm, 18Ib pike

In the same midlands area the Glore anglers fished a pike competition on the River Inny catching some fine fish on the day.  A group of Kilkenny anglers fished with Kevin Lyons from Longford and after switching to deadbaits they caught some nice double figure fish.  A fine 115 cm Pike won the day at the recent Fishmaniak Competition on Lough Egish and the captor Damian Lisewski wins our Catch of the Week. At Templemore Park Lake, the pike competition at the weekend proved difficult for the members but a few pike were recorded on the day.  Paul Moinester USA, enjoyed some fine pike fishing on the fly on Lough Ramor.  You can read all about pike on the fly written by one of our foremost specimen hunters Terry Jackson. There was some good pike fishing for members of Lithuanian fishing club in Ireland on their recent outing on Lough Ree.

The copper coast is gaining a great reputation for good bass fishing and this week it was no different with some fine fish reported.  There was some more excellent deep sea fishing reported from the Maidens in Northern Ireland where Spurdogs, black mouth dogfish and doggies produced good sport. Bass fishing is still in full swing and a group of Waterford anglers enjoyed some great fishing from the shore and rock marks on mainly lures.  Thirty anglers fished the first competition of the Cork Harbour Light Lines series and there was some fine fish recorded on the day including plaice, brill and some fine whiting.  Twenty hardy anglers from the Tralee SAC including juniors fished a shore competition at the weekend and had a good range of species in the cool chilly conditions.  Sean Jordan from Wexford reports on some excellent bass fishing in the south Wexford area.  In the same area, some dedicated bass anglers reeled in some fine bass mainly on lures.

The 2013 Connacht TAFI Stillwater Championship was fished on Lough na Leibe and well known Corrib angler, Basil Shields won the day with 10 rainbows.  Well known angling guide Jason O’Riordan reports on a recent visit to Ardaire Springs in Co. Kilkenny where he enjoyed some good sport for rainbow trout. There was some super rainbow trout fishing at the first heat of the winter league at Cortland Fishery

Elsewhere there are reports on many flycasting courses and other news on many of our trout and salmon fisheries.  You can read about all these news stories in this week’s angling update.

The weather is still mild so go fishing, you cannot beat it even at this time of year,

Tight lines especially in Ireland,

Paul Bourke
Angling Information Officer

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