Specimen hunters and other anglers again managed to catch large fish covering the range of species normally reported, with new records established for twaite shad and smooth hound, according to the Irish Specimen Fish Committee report for 2015. Thomas Lynch from Rush, Co Dublin, surpassed the 1999 twaite shad record by .1kg with a fish of 1.64kg using a Tasmanian Devil lure on the river Barrow at St Mullins, Co Carlow…
Irish Times, 18/01/16. Read the full article ‘Angling Notes: Records set for twaite shad and smooth hound in 2015‘.
