Frank Reilly reports that anglers throughout the Corrib are reporting good hatches of olives and Campto buzzer, with reports of early mayfly in the Corr na Mona area. Caolan Mc Donnell, Cong landed 3 trout in one day dapping mayflies. Tom Somerville, Corr na Mona, also dapping mayflies landed 3 good trout for one day. Peter Curran, Corr na Mona fished for 3 days and landed 10 trout on mayfly patterns. Jimmie Molloy, Cong fished for 1 day and landed 4 trout to wet fly. The Corr na Mona 2015 catch and release pairs competition for Galway Hospice was held on Sunday 26th April, with 58 anglers landing 106 trout over 30cm. 1st was Jerry Dixon and Jonny Faherty from Oughterard with 13 trout recorded. 2nd was Stephen Campbell and Tom Dennehy, Killarney with 7 trout recorded. 3rd was Tom Doc Sullivan Corr na Mona and Davie Breen kenmare, with 6 trout recorded. The largest fish recorded was 58cm caught by Tom Doc Sullivan.
The Greenfields area fished well over the weekend to wet fly, buzzer and dry olives. Frank Guilfoyle and son Frank from Ennis fished for 2 days and landed 5 trout up to 2.5 lbs on wet fly and dry olives. Pappy Cotter, Ennis fished for one day and landed 3 trout. Galway West Garda Angling Club held a competition on Friday 24th, with 10 anglers landing 10 trout. 1st was Peter Mc Guinness with 2 trout for 2.31kgs. 2nd was Mick Bradley with 2 trout for 1.64kgs and 3rd was Sean Travers, with 2 trout for 1.53kgs.
Angling in the Oughterard area over the last week was reported to be quiet, although some good catches were recorded. Kevin Molloy and Harold O’Toole fished for 2 days and landed 14 trout. The Raysuger party, from France, trolling for 3 days landed 18 trout for 30lbs. Well-known French singer and Connemara visitor Pierre Perret went trolling for 1.5 days landed 3 great trout at 13lbs, 7lbs and 6.5 lbs.
It was a week of two seasons at Lakelands,early week bright Sunshine and calm conditions. Two anglers from Holland fishing from Lakeland Angling centre had a good two days on corrib big hatches of olives attracted plenty of feeding trout and fishing dry olives proved fruitful for Douwe Van Sinderen and Douwe Wierstra.
Jeff Churton from Wales had a beautiful 5lb trout the biggest he ever caught.
A drop of 10 degrees in the second half of the week didn’t stop Ray Byrnes and Jonathan Rice they had 6 trout on green dabblers. Mayfly starting to appear not long now .
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Larry Mc Carthy of Corrib Angling Services (www.corribangling.com) reported good fishing over the last week on light buzzers and dry olives in tough conditions. Tim Rowley and John Walmersley from Cumbria were very happy with 13 great trout over 6 days, with John landing personal best of 4lb 8oz safely returned to fight another day.
Frank Conroy and friend Ross from the UK fished for 3 days and landed 6 trout with 2 trout over 3lbs.
Mike Holian was also in touch to report plenty of olives in the Salthouse Bay area, but the trout were proving hard to tempt, with buzzer hatches starting as well. Ian Kelly, Mullingar, had a nice trout of 5 lbs on buzzer on Friday evening. Ian returned on Sunday with Kevin Martin, also from Mullingar, and had 3 trout for 9 lbs on buzzer patterns. Richard Hunter & John Kiernan, Wicklow, had 4 trout on buzzers over the weekend, best 4 lbs. Simon Ryan, Cong, had a nice salmon of 8 lbs while trolling for trout with a Lane minnow. I hope to have more reports from Mike over the coming weeks, and he can be contacted for boat hire, accommodation and guiding at 087 2130416 or online at www.bayviewangling.com
Douwe Wierstra from Holland battling a whopper
