AS WITH a good wine, it was worth waiting for. The penultimate, ex- tended, week of the game-angling season witnessed two of our finest trout fisheries in counties Kerry and Cavan produce record-breaking trout.
On Lough Currane in Waterville, Paul Lawton from Cork caught and released a fantastic hen sea trout of 6.69kg (14.75lb) fly-fishing at the Black Rocks near Tub Island with local angler Liam Ellis and Peter Muldoon, from Cork. The fish was 89.5cm long with a girth of 45cm.
This is a new record for Currane, superseding the 6.04kg (13.31lb) specimen caught by UK angler Sean Smith in 2011…..
Irish Times 14/10/2013 Read the article ‘Old records tumble in a weighty end to the game-angling season in Cork and Kerry‘
