Declan Gibbons reports
High water levels for the time of the year have altered the angling and mixed fortunes are being had by anglers that took to the water. However, most who ventured out enjoyed good fishing.
Larry McCarthy of Corrib View Lodge http://www.corribangling.com reports of extremely high water levels making angling difficult over the last week. Eight anglers staying at Corrib View Lodge caught and returned 14 trout over 4 days, best fish 3Lbs but many in the 1.5Lbs range. Angling effort has been slow but with a drop in levels hopefully it will see a positive end to the 2019 season.
In the Cornamona area, Tom Doc Sullivan http://www.tomdoc.com reports of John Somerville and himself fishing for an afternoon on Monday last and had good action on wet flies landing 3 with John landing a good fish of 3.5Lbs and another fish over 3Lbs and a fish of 1.5Lbs. In the Cong area, John Lydon of Lydon’s Lodge Cong http://www.lydonslodge.ie reports of reasonably good fishing in the Inchagoill and Dooras areas on Tuesday and Friday last with Mark Gibbons landing a fish of 4Lbs and John himself landing a fish 5Lbs plus sportingly released.
Galway and Corrib Anglers hosted The Malachy Hanley Cup fished out of Birchall on Sunday last with 30 rods participating and 14 anglers recording 20 fish. 1st place went to Mike Costelllo with 3 fish for 8.2Lbs, 2nd place went to Christy Reilly with 2 fish for 3.7Lbs, 3rd place went to Declan O Grady with 2 fish for 3.55Lbs. Heaviest Fish went to Mike Costello with a fish of 3.45Lbs.
On Sunday last, Annaghdown Angling Club hosted The Michael Kavanagh Shield, 16 rods participated and 10 fish were recorded. 1st place went to Adrian Lynch with 3 fish for 2.5kgs, 2nd place went to Kenny O Toole with 1 fish 1.5Kgs, Kenny also won Heaviest Fish and 3rd place went to Ronan Sweeney with 1 fish 1.1Kgs.
Basil Shields of Ardnasillagh Lodge (+353 (0)91 552550) reports of reasonable angling for the week gone by with Dave Donnelly landing 15 fish for 4 days with his best fish being 4.5Lbs on a dry fly the other 14 fish were got on wet fly. Peter Boyle had 5 fish on Friday with the best being three and a quarter pounds. Peter Campbell had 9 fish on daphnia for his trip to Corrib with the best being a pound and a half.
On Saturday last Headford and Corrib Anglers hosted The Andrew Egan Cup with 22 anglers participating and 7 fish were recorded with an average weight of 1.64Lbs. 1st Place went to Loughrea Angler Basil Reilly with a fish 2.67Lbs, 2nd Place went to Ted Wherry with a fish 2.22Lbs, 3rd Place went to Robert Reilly with two fish for 1.95Lbs. Heaviest Fish went to Mary Miller with a fish 1.78Lbs. On Sunday last Ennis anglers Sean Dixon had 1 fish 3Lbs and Michael Killeen had 1 fish 1.5Lbs on wets in the Malachy’s Island area.
On Thursday last, Loughrea angler Robert Reilly and David Connor Armagh had good action landing 8 fish on wets with the best being 4.5Lbs, all returned apart from one. Also on Thursday last, anglers John Ryan Limerick and Tim Queally Tulla had good fishing landing five fish on wets with the best fish being 3Lbs, all returned apart from one.
