As the final days of 2024 are upon us and we look ahead to a new year and new fishing seasons, the Irish Angling Update team would like to say a big ‘Thank You’ to everyone who has contributed to the e-zine in 2024.
As well as publishing the newsletter on the fishinginireland.info website, we also email it out to nearly 19,000 email subscribers each week to share the latest news in Irish angling – and we could not do it without the help of all of the guides, ghillies, clubs, federations, fisher folk and Inland Fisheries Ireland staff who send us wonderful photographs and angling reports to our dedicated reports@fisheriesireland.ie email address – so thank you all! 👏👏👏👏
Looking back, 2024 was an impressive year for Irish angling teams on the international stage. In coarse fishing, Team Ireland smashed their way to the podium becoming World Champions in Spain, ten years on from the team’s silver medal finish on Inniscarra Lake, Co. Cork. In a double victory for Ireland, Michael Buchwalder achieved individual gold. In Hungary, the U25 team secured the silver medal at the World Feeder Fishing Championships.
At the World Boat Fishing Championships for Seniors in Cork, Ireland finished with the team silver medal and the top scoring individual – Liam O’Callaghan. From the shore, the Irish team took bronze and Chris O’Sullivan took the individual silver at the World Championship in Shore Angling for Seniors in Spain. In the Home Nations Shore Angling Championships, there were gold medals for both the ladies and men’s senior teams, with the Under-16 team taking silver, and the under-21 team winning bronze.
In France, Mark Driver won the Silver Medal and Ireland took Team Gold in the 5 Nations Fly Fishing Championship. There was Team and Individual Gold for ITFFA Ireland team at the International Fly-Fishing Association Rivers competition on the River Tees in England. A super achievement by Mark Sloan taking overall top individual rod there. Not to be outdone by the ‘more experienced’ anglers, the Irish Youth Fly Fishing team took an unprecedented fourth gold in a row at the Youth International Fly Fishing Championships held in July 2024 on Grafham water in England.
In predator fishing, Team Ireland took the bronze medal at the 2024 Lure Fishing World Championships on Lough Erne.
These are just some of the highlights of a great year for Irish teams on the competitive angling scene and hopefully they have laid the groundwork for more success in 2025 and beyond. We’ll keep sending out the e-zine in 2025 to keep you up to date with our Irish anglers at home and abroad, as long as our contributors keep fishing and sending us in the reports, so please keep them coming to reports@fisheriesireland.ie.
A peaceful new year to all in our angling community, from the Irish Angling Update team.
Safe fishing to all and tight lines, especially here in Ireland.
IFI Staff
Catch, Photo, Release
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