Dick Caplice reports on the fishing at Lough Muckno…
09 July: On the run in to the two Irish opens and the July festival it is pleasing to find that the venue at lough Muckno is in top form, with great weights being reported on all sections and on all methods. Thursday saw Joe Kiernan and his friend Brian Hartley have a pleasure session on Concra Woods narrows where both chose to stick it out on the feeder with fine results, catching an abundance of small skimmers, some quality Roach, hybrids and not so small skimmers. Joe with 16 kg after 4 hours 30 minutes was just pipped by his fishing mate Brian who ended the session on 18kg.
Today’s session for me on the pole on peg 71 saw just over 20kgs being netted and the stamp of fish is truly wonderful, with many Roach caught in the 6oz to 1 lb mark. This was topped with several skimmers in the 6oz to 1.5lb bracket and a nice scattering of very decent hybrids, for a thoroughly enjoyable day.
Upcoming events
The point of the exercise was to test the water before the main events calendar gets underway in style on saturday the 16th July with the Garda Irish Open followed on the 17th, by the IADA Irish open.
Monday the 18th, of course, sees the start of one of our flagship 5 day festivals “The July Festival” formerly known as the Muckno Mania Festival and a great event is in prospect, with top contenders from home and abroad, in the fray, as usual.
As the title of each of the former implies these events are open, to all native and visiting anglers male and female irrespective of affiliation or or indeed standard. These opens are a great opportunity to fish alongside the best the country has to offer and indeed the best that the significant travelling entourage brings here, as the festival circuit gets into top gear with the cream of the visiting raiders now on their way.
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